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Clay is just this kind of amazing material

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in that it has all these different states.

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And it's very loose and pliable--

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it can be unwieldy,

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especially when you're working with a lot of it.[br][LAUGHS]

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And then it dries out.

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The water leaves it.

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It just becomes, like, this dust.

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And you have to get it into the kiln.

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You fire it

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and it vitrifies and becomes very hard and stable.

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It's so interesting that dust becomes this material

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that is, like, probably

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one of the hardest things to degrade.

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[Liz Larner in "Los Angeles"][br][September 23, 2016 on PBS]