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3. Process of colouring your ware.

5. The heat treatment of ceramic materials.

7. A clay or ceramic unit of building construction, usually rectangular in shape.

10. The taking up of liquid into the body of the pot.

12. All ceramic mateials are based on this flint based material.

15. A wooden tool with curved arms and ends.

17. Method of applying glaze or colour by means of a spray-gun.

20. A strong flux or glass modifer.

21. A powdery residue left after combustion.

22. Fired clay objects.

23. Two words to describe a wall built between the firebox and kiln chamber.

25. Technique involving a rapid firing cycle with uncertain results.

26. Metallic element which produces reds and browns.

27. Derived from the Greek word "keramos", burnt stuff.

29. Pattern composed of small tiles.

32. An old technique used to make pottery.

33. A non shiny surface.

34. The temperature of the surrounding atmosphere.

35. The extraction of oxygen atoms from oxides.

38. The hand forming of hollow shapes on a revolving wheel.

39. Dry clay which is mixed with water.

40. Needs to pour well, but difficult to make.

43. Clay container in which pottery is fired to protect the ware.

44. Coiled wire which cunducts electricity.

45. Petrol based fuel.

46. A mesh which controls the size of mateial which passes through it.

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1. A white earthy limestone.

2. Blisters or bubbles in a glaze which have not settled out.

3. A substancs in the gaseous state.

4. A Greek pointed base pot.

6. Potters oven.

8. Foot operated potter's wheel.

9. A round sphere or plastic secondary clay.

11. The polishing of the clay surface.

13. A machine for mixing ceramic materials.

14. The aging of clay

15. A blue oxide.

16. A type of former.

18. Sodium diborate.

19. The application of pigment onto a pot while spinning.

22. A fine pale body of primary clay with a distinctive ring when struck.

24. A dried clay-mud

27. Technical name for this material is "kaolinite".

28. Vertical shaft of brick.

30. Name of the American pyrometric cone.

31. The cracking of pottery during firing due to drafts.

36. Will not absorbe water.

37. Unglazed ware.

38. The trimming of a thrown pot.

39. Material which is dense and hard enough to withstand scratching and water absorbtion.

41. The forming of clay through a die.

42. Equiptment worn to avoide dust.

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