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Materials in sport Ceramics are any inorganic non-metallic material. Examples of ceramics can be from table salt to clay (complex silicate) some scientists say that ceramics must also be crystalline. This means that the molecules of the material are arranged in a regular pattern. The materials that are inorganic non-metallic but do not have a crystalline structure are called amorphous. An everyday example of an amorphous material is glass. This ranges from glass in bottles to the high purity glass in optical fibres Some useful properties of ceramics are: high melting points, low density, high strength, stiffness, hardness, wear resistance, and corrosion resistance. Many ceramics are good electrical and thermal insulators. Certain ceramics have special properties. Some are magnetic or super conductors. Ceramics do have one major draw back; they are very brittle Traditional ceramics are materials such as clay, talc, and porcelain that make products like pottery, bricks and containers for...

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