Ceramics Module Quiz

Short answer.

1. What made ceramics the first technology?

2. What are the two general classes of ceramics and how are they different?

3. What advantages and disadvantages do ceramics have over other materials?

4. What general properties do ionic materials have?

5. What general properties do covalent materials have?

6. What general properties do ceramic materials have?

7. Why are ceramics brittle and most metals not?

8. Why is glass transparent but a brick is not?

9. What causes thermal expansion in materials, and why do ceramic materials have small

coefficients of expansion?

10. List the parts of your body that are ceramic materials. How do you know that they

are?