Imagine you’re making cool pottery shapes with wax. You might use different tools and materials to make those shapes, just like playing with crayons on paper! The Cone 012 is a special type of clay known as a cone, and it’s important for a process called wax burnout.
What is Wax Burnout?
When you make a mold for pottery, sometimes you want to use wax to create the shapes first. Wax is soft and easy to work with, but we can’t use wax when we want to fire the pottery in a kiln (a big oven for pottery). So, we need to burn out the wax first.
Here’s how it works:
- You make a shape out of wax.
- You put that wax shape inside a mold.
- When you heat the mold in the kiln, the wax melts and burns away.
- After that, the mold will have a space shaped exactly like your wax creation!
- Finally, you can pour hot clay into that mold and make your pottery.
Why Cone 012?
Cone 012 helps us understand how hot the kiln needs to be to melt away the wax without damaging the mold. The number indicates a specific temperature that is right for the wax burnout process. This is really important because if it gets too hot, it might mess up the mold or the pottery.
Example Objects with Measurements
Imagine you have a list of objects that match the cone thing perfectly! Here are 7 objects, each exactly like the shape made from the wax.
- A cake that is 12 cm in diameter and 5 cm tall.
- A cup that holds 12 cm of water and is 10 cm tall.
- A small box that is 12 cm long, 12 cm wide, and 12 cm tall.
- A pencil that is 12 cm long and 1 cm thick.
- A ball that is 12 cm in diameter.
- A picture frame that is 12 cm wide and 12 cm tall.
- A toy car that is 12 cm long and 5 cm high.
So, you see, wax burnout and Cone 012 help us make beautiful pottery! It’s all about using heat in the right way to create what we want.
