Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Sintering is a method for making strong ceramic objects from ceramic powder. Mixing water, binder, antiflocculant, and ceramic powder to form a slurry. Spray drying the slurry Putting the spray dryed powder into a mold and pressing it to form a green body (An unsintered ceramic material) Heating the Green Body at low temperature to burn the binder off. Sintering at a high temperature to fuse the ceramic particles together. A similar process of sintering is sometimes used to form metallic objects. Sintered bronze in particular is frequently used as a material for bearings since it is porous and thus allows lubricants to flow through. Sintering is related to Diffusion. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.