Ceramics are the common denomination to all the articles or object's produced with clay and burned to the fire. The hashing of the adobe in ceramics happens during the burning. When the clay is burnt and becomes firm, in its first burning gets the call "biscuit", that although more not to come back to the plastic state still possesses characteristic fragile, therefore to fall themselves in the soil or to take a stronger collision, has been broken in many pieces. The clay exists in all terrestrial surfaces. Some types are found the open sky and others in underground mines or deposits. The clay when removed of the nature generally it contains elements undesirable, organic impurities, and therefore needs to be benefited through mechanical and chemical processes. For each category of the ceramic production the production of the argillaceous masses needs the upgrade or the withdrawal of elements in its composition, in accordance with its application, thus preventing the occurrence of cracks and ravages. Of the many existing types of clay the masses ceramic that are used in the manufacture of ceramic utensils as roofing tiles, bricks, flanged union, floor, etc. are produced; that it is call the "structural ceramic". The masses of adobe are raw employees in the construction of housings. Called it used "white ware" in sanitary parts, tiles, electric, conducting floor of high impact, refractory, insulators is had electric, etc. And the ceramic masses for the artistic ceramic call.

The Ceramics can be defined as material inorganic, non-metallic gotten generally after thermal handling in high temperatures. The ceramic materials are manufactured from raw materials classified in natural and synthetic. The natural ones more used industrially are: clay, caulino, quartz, feldspato, filito, talco, calcite, dolomite, magnesia, cromita, bauxite, graphite and zirconium. The synthetic ones, among others include alumina (aluminium oxide) under different forms (calcined, eletro funded); silicon carbonate and the most diverse inorganic chemical products.

Ceramics have electric properties as isolating of high-voltage, in resistances, as the memory in computers, candles in the internal combustion of engines and, more recently, in applications of superconductors of high temperature. Ceramics are essential for the construction industry, for the petrochemical industries, to generate electricity, for the communications, space exploration, medicine, sanitary. Porous porcelain done ceramics filters can isolate microbes and bacteria of milk and drinking waters, to separate dust of gases and to remove particles solid of liquid.

Ceramics Shields, which are light and resistant to the impact, they have been confectioned to protect military airplanes, vehicles and soldiers. Ceramic mono-crystals have important mechanical, electric and optic applications. Ceramics include item so delicate that they can be broken by a light touch, so resistant that they can protect our proper body and so lasting that they remain after thousand of more remote years disclosing to us it history of our ancestral ones.