Mason 6450 Praseodymium Yellow Stain Medium Fire -Laguna Clays including wheel throwing and sculpting

including wheel throwing and sculpting

Fires gray/white in reduction and lighter in oxidation

Reduces a warm orange/brown

it fires very white and is used in white firing porcelains and stoneware for its excellent plasticity

An impure titanium dioxide tan colorant which contains a small amount of iron

Mason 6450 Praseodymium Yellow Stain Medium Fire -Laguna Clays including wheel throwing and sculptingStains are a mixture of ceramic oxides and coloring metal oxides that are melted in kilns, quenched, ground to specific mesh size (some are acid washed), and colored with organic dyes to simulate the fired color. Essentially they are fritted colorants. They are made and manufactured for several reasons: to provide a consistent and stable form of colorant that doesnt dissolve in the glaze melt as easily as coloring metal oxides; to make colorants safer