Stages of Clay-Vocab 1-Part 1

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Across
  1. 4. The property of clay that allows it to change shape without tearing or breaking
  2. 6. Unfired pottery or sculpture
  3. 7. The stage of clay when it has dried has lost its plasticity but it is still wet to the touch; best stage for carving, adding handles and slip decoration
  4. 8. A glass coating fused to the surface of a ceramic piece
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  1. 1. Ceramic that has gone through the first firing, maintains its porous state
  2. 2. A stage of the green-ware/unfired clay in which it has dried to the humidity in the air and is ready to undergo the first firing; a very passive stage of the clay,it cannot be repaired if broken
  3. 3. clay objects that permanently retain their shape after they have been heated to specific temperatures
  4. 5. Fine-grained earth materials formed by the decomposition of igneous rock; plastic when wet; strong when leather-hard; when exposed to red heat becomes denser and rock-like. The chemical composition of clay is Al2O32SiO26H2O