What is Vitreous Enamel?
• Enamel or Vitreous Enamel is really a thin layer of glass fused by heat on to the surface of a metal. ———————————————————————————————— • Enamel is part of everyday life and found all around us. It covers many kitchen surfaces including cookers, saucepans and washing machine drums. You will find enamel covering cast iron or steel baths and clock and watch faces. Enamel is also used by artists and in jewelery, famously in Russia’s Fabergé eggs. ———————————————————————————————— • Out of doors, we use enamel for street signs, Underground station signs, architectural panels, storage tanks and in lots of other places. It is selected because it is weatherproof, vandal resistant, fire proof and because it lasts and lasts and lasts. Titanic’s Captain Smith’s bathtub enamel has survived very well under the sea. ———————————————————
