1. Brick products, their use and properties. Brick raw materials, demands concerning their properties. 2. Raw material preparation, beneficiation lines, homogenization. Shaping in brick industry, paste rheology, auger machine. 3. Drying and firing in brick industry. Properties of fired brick body in dependence on porosity. 4. Ceramic tiles. 5. Stoneware. 6. Porcelain. Sanitary ceramics. 7. Engobes and glazes. 8. Refractory materials and their selected properties. testing of refractory materials. 9. Acidic refractory products – chamotte, silica. Basic refractory products. 10. Refractory castables based on Portland cement and aluminous cement. 11. Special refractory meterials. Silicon-carbide products, graphite and carbon products. Refractory materials from pure oxides.

1. Introduction. 2. Influence of limestone on the firing shrinkage of ceramic body – preparation of test samples. 3. Influence of limestone on the firing shrinkage of ceramic body – properties of fired test samples. 4. Assessment of the impact of feldspar as a flux – preparation of test samples. 5. Assessment of the impact of feldspar as a flux – the characteristics of the samples after firing. 6. Calculate the composition of the glaze by Seger formula. 7. Excursion. 8. Castable – calculation formula, preparation of test samples. 9. Castable – properties of the test samples after firing. 10. Verification behavior of glazes on ceramic bodies. 11. Credit.