Patent ID: 8507098

Claim:
A wear resistant coating, comprising a strontium aluminosilicate glass-ceramic composition that is formed from a glaze that comprises a crystallizing component, wherein the crystallizing component comprises strontium, aluminum, and silicon, and wherein the crystallizing component comprises less than about 2 weight percent each of lithium, boron, barium, sodium, iron, titanium, zirconium, and carbon, based on a total weight of the crystallizing component, wherein the glaze exhibits no detectable strontium aluminum silicate crystalline phase prior to firing; and wherein the glaze further comprises a flux component, wherein the flux component comprises aluminum, silicon, sodium, calcium, potassium, and magnesium, and wherein the flux component comprises less than about 2 weight percent each of lithium, boron, barium, iron, titanium, phosphorus, zinc, and carbon.