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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.27,0:00:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clay is just this kind of amazing material
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.08,0:00:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that it has all these different states.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.29,0:00:18.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's very loose and pliable--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.41,0:00:20.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can be unwieldy,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.19,0:00:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially when you're working with a lot of it.\N[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.76,0:00:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then it dries out.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.13,0:00:32.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The water leaves it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.59,0:00:35.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It just becomes, like, this dust.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.88,0:00:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you have to get it into the kiln.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.52,0:00:41.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You fire it
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.43,0:00:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it vitrifies and becomes very hard and stable.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.32,0:00:49.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's so interesting that dust becomes this material
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.67,0:00:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is, like, probably
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.00,0:00:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the hardest things to degrade.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.02,0:01:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Liz Larner in "Los Angeles"]\N[September 23, 2016 on PBS]