Ceramic coating a car makes water bead right off, but the best brake pads and clutches are also ceramic (aside from carbon ceramic and carbon carbon)

Answered: basically ceramic is a wide range of materials with vastly different properties

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    4 months ago

    Ceramic comes from the word Keramic which means relating to Pottery.

    If you mix sediments with moisture and fire it in an oven, it is ceramic. Difference of materials means different properties. Some materials crystalize, some burn, or some polish smooth easily.