ABSTRACT
The term ‘ceramic’ comes from the Greek word Keramikos, which literally means ‘burnt things’. This tells us something of the way that the early Greeks manufactured ceramic pots, cisterns and the like. Consequently, a ceramic can be defined as an inorganic solid compound that is usually formed by the application of heat and sometimes heat and pressure. Ceramic armour materials are composed of at least one metal and non-metallic elemental solid with the raw material for ceramic production extracted from the earth and processed.
