Porcelain: A powder composed of a clay, silica, and a flux that, when mixed with water, forms a paste that is molded to form artificial teeth, inlays, jacket crowns, and dentures. When heated, the materials fuse to form a ceramic.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Porcelain: white translucent dense ceramic material produced by fusing under high temperature a mixture of feldspar, kaolin, quartz, whiting and other substances; dental porcelain is used in dental restorations, either jacket crowns or inlays, artificial teeth, or metal-ceramic crowns and is essentially a mixture of particles of feldspar and quartz.
Source: CRISP
Source - CRISP
Source: CRISP
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