Offsite-Use water

[Henry Spencer]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, John McGregor wrote:
> > I would think anything that is used to build kilns from would be
> > pretty fire retardant.
> 
> Toilet bowls and tanks aren't really ceramic. They are made from plaster
> of paris and only have a very thin ceramic or sometimes polymer skin.

At least the older ones are entirely ceramic... but "ceramic" is like
"metal", it's a very generic term for a wide class of materials.  There
are metals that will melt in the palm of your hand.  There are others that
will stay solid at blinding white heat.  Same story for ceramics:  the
fact that you can build kilns with *some* ceramics says nothing about the
heat resistance of ceramic toilet tanks. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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