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Can I use the pyrometric cones that potters use to gauge the temperature inside my kiln?

April 26, 2017cones gauge kiln potters temperature

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Can I use the pyrometric cones that potters use to gauge the temperature inside my kiln?

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I’ve been told that pyrometric cones are not appropriate for measuring the relatively short firing times of PMC. Apparently they measure “heat work,” the accumulated energy of time and temp, which is critical to ceramics but less relevant to metals.