Ceramic Sugar Basin. Turkey Kutahya çini şekerli Stock Photo

Ceramic is the name for materials that are formed by the use of heat. The word ceramic comes from the Greek word κεραμικός keramikos. The term covers inorganic non-metallic materials which are formed by the action of heat. Up to the 1950s or so, the most important were the traditional clays, made into pottery, bricks,