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title: "Glaze and Fire"
url: https://springpottery.com/glaze-and-fire
description: "Essays filed under Glaze and Fire at Spring Pottery: Glaze Colour in Plain Language, Why a Kiln Firing Takes Two Days."
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# Glaze and Fire

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2 essays filed under Glaze and Fire.

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- [Glaze Colour in Plain Language](https://springpottery.com/glaze-colour-in-plain-language)Glaze and Fire · About 4 minutesGlaze colour comes from a handful of metal oxides behaving differently in different melts. The same oxide can produce green, brown, red or black without changing.
- [Why a Kiln Firing Takes Two Days](https://springpottery.com/why-a-kiln-firing-takes-two-days)Glaze and Fire · About 4 minutesNothing in a kiln is in a hurry. Every stage of the schedule exists to let a specific physical or chemical change finish before the next one begins.

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