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Wheel throwing is a technique for creating ceramic objects from raw clay on a potter's wheel. Click to open Glossary. Porcelain is a form of stoneware clay that is white, durable, hard, fine-grained and nonporous. Click to open Glossary. Wheel throwing uses a potter's wheel to convert raw clay into a ceramic object. Click to open Glossary. Dremel drill is used to make series of small holes in a ceramic to form a pattern. Click to open Glossary. Firing converts soft greenware to hard ceramic state by exposure to high kiln temperatures. Click to open Glossary. Cones are pyramids of clay and glaze that melt and bend at specific temperatures. They are used to determine when optimal temperature is reached for a given ceramic work being fired in a kiln. Click to open Glossary. Clear glaze provides a transparant coating to the surface of a ceramic work. Click to open Glossary. Refiring is a sequential method of repetitive firings at lower and lower temperatures to prevent damage to previously fired glazes. Click to open Glossary. Blue Bleaded Plate is a ceramic plate with blue and gold design supplement with beading.