Whiteware

[Gregory]

Large domestic goods such as refrigerators and washing machines.

[Magaret]

any of a broad class of ceramic products that are white to [off-white] in appearance and frequently contain a significant vitreous, or glassy, component. Including products as diverse as [fine china] dinnerware, lavatory sinks and toilets, dental implants, and spark-plug insulators, whitewares all depend for their utility upon a relatively small set of properties: imperviousness to fluids, low conductivity of electricity, chemical inertness, and an ability to be formed into complex shapes. These properties are determined by the mixture of [raw materials] chosen for the products, as well as by the forming and firing processes employed in their manufacture.