Why are toilet bowls commonly made of porcelain? Any websites that provide explanations?

Answer 1

Porcelain is very hard, smooth, impervious, and strong.

It also lends itself to a fairly easy, cost effective, manufacturing process for mass production.

The hard, smooth, and impervious are so that it can't accumulate bacteria from human waste. It has to be able to be properly cleaned.

The strong is so it can hold heavier folks also.

Answer 2

This is the closest I could come to what you want to know.

Porcelain
According to "Webster's New World College Dictionary (4th Ed.)" porcelain is "a hard, white, nonporous, translucent variety of ceramic ware." "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary" further defines porcelain as "...[consisting] essentially of kaolin, quartz and feldspar, and is fired at high temperatures."
In other words, porcelain is pottery made of a special white form of clay. It is molded in a liquid form, dried as greenware, painted with glaze and then fired in a kiln. A toilet bowl is generally molded in two halves which are attached together in the greenware state. The tank and tank lid can be molded as one piece.



Okay this is probably the reason why we usee porcelain for toilets.

Properties associated with porcelain include those of low permeability, high strength, hardness, glassiness, durability, whiteness, translucence, resonance, brittleness, high resistance to the passage of electricity, high resistance to chemical attack, high resistance to thermal shock and high elasticity.

Porcelain is used to make wares for the table and kitchen, sanitary wares, decorative wares, objects of fine art, and tile. Its high resistance to the passage of electricity makes porcelain an excellent insulating material. It is also used in dentistry to make false teeth, caps and crowns.


I think the main thing is whiteness and durability. I hope this helped because it took me awhile to find. :)

Answer 3

Can you imagine how nasty a bowl could get if it was made of wood or how hard it would be to scrub if it was made of concrete or perhaps how expensive it would be if it was made of marble?

The only other option is steel and thats what they use in prisons.

Answer 4

with connection with bathrooms. they are relatively wiped sparkling, could be made in a sort of colors, could be forged in a sort of shapes, are particularly priced. an determination is stainless-steel and that they do no longer relatively evaluate aesthetically with ceramic. stainless-steel is positive (i've got confidence) for sinks - ceramic could be too relatively broken.