Oxide ceramics include alumina, zirconia, silica, aluminum silicate, magnesia and other metal oxide based materials. Oxide ceramics have high melting points, low wear resistance, and a wide range of electrical properties. Oxide ceramics are used in a variety of applications. Examples include chemical and materials processing, electrical and high voltage power applications, Radio Frequency (RF) and microwave applications, and foundry and metal processing. "Zirconia-Ceramic steel?" The title of the first scientific paper to highlight the possibilities offered by the "transformation toughening" mechanism which occurs in certain zirconia ceramics. Since the publication of this seminal work in 1975, considerable research, development, and marketing efforts have been expanded on this single material which offer the traditional ceramic benefits of hardness, wear resistance and corrosion resistance, without the characteristic ceramic property of absolute brittleness. Zirconia, ZrO2 exists as a monoclinic crystal at room temperature inverting to tetragonal phase above approximately 1200°C. The addition of large amounts of a stabilizer such as magnesium oxide will induce a cubic crystal structure during firing that does not revert to the monoclinic phase upon cooling. The addition of generally less than 10% by weight of stabilizers yields high-density ceramic bodies known as transformation toughened zirconia. Two fundamentally different microstructures exist depending upon the added stabilizer. The addition of MgO yields a relatively coarse grained (50-100 micron) microstructure known as Mg-PSZ. The grains are predominantly cubic morphology with a fine precipitate of tetragonal phase dispersed within the grain. Yttria, Y2O3, additions yield an extremely fine grained (less than 1 micron) microstructure known as Y-PSZ or TZP or tetragonal zirconia polycrystal. The individual grains are completely tetragonal. In present study, Calcia and Magnesia stabilized fine Zirconia powders in various ratios were studied. Powder mixtures (Ca(OH)2, Mg(OH)2 and ZrO2) were prepared in acetone and milled as wet with YSZ (yitria stabilized zirconia) balls of 10 mm Ø for 3 h. Particle size of Calcia, Magnesia and Zirconia powders were submicrometer. The pressureless hot molding technique has been selected for forming of the partial stabilized zirconia with MgO and CaO. Binder system for pressureless hot molding was a mixture of paraffin wax as primary binder and oleic acid as surfactant. … [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]