pottery vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. machine for mixing clay
  2. 5. the temperature at which clay becomes hard and durable
  3. 6. a thin coating of glass on pottery
  4. 8. unfired pottery
  5. 9. to heat clay to a specific temperature
  6. 11. a rubber or metal tool to help throw pottery forms
  7. 13. firing with reduced oxygen in the kiln
  8. 16. pressed or rolled flat sheets of clay
  9. 19. the quality of clay allowing it to be shaped without cracking or breaking
  10. 23. moving the clay to the middle of the wheel for throwing
  11. 24. refractory posts and shelves use4d for stacking a kiln
  12. 25. a melting agent causing silica to change to glass
Down
  1. 1. clay mixed with water to a mayonaise like consistency
  2. 3. fired clay ground to various mesh sizes
  3. 4. stage of clay between plastic and bone dry
  4. 7. keep the bottom of the pot free from glaze by using wax
  5. 10. low fired clay body between 1830 and 2010 F
  6. 12. rubbing the outside of a pot to make it shiny
  7. 14. a piece of clay rolled like a snake
  8. 15. alumina + silica + water
  9. 17. a furnace of refractory bricks
  10. 18. pottery fired once without glaze to a temperature below vitrification
  11. 20. the base of a ceramic form
  12. 21. a device with a rotating wheel heaqd used to make pottery
  13. 22. a flat disc of plastic affixed to the wheelhead with pins for throwing