Chuck

Yeah, and that's usually going to be like that mixing bowl, like tableware is usually that kaolin.

Very, very fine particle size.

It's super durable, like we were talking about, and not permeable by any liquid.

Just try it again.

And, you know, when we're talking firing temperatures, we'll get to a couple of different kinds of porcelain, but it can go up to 2300 degrees Fahrenheit, about 1260 Celsius.

And it kind of just depends on...

the what you're making it for.

Like, is it a toilet or is it a mixing bowl or is it fine china?

Yeah, because I've worked with porcelain tile where you can do that.

A lot of times floor tile can be porcelain.

But this all originated in China about 2,000 years ago during the Tang Dynasty.

But it wasn't like the porcelain we know.

It was basically like, hey, we put out our fire and they discovered this really hard, unbroken, solid pieces of stuff.

And that was just rudimentary porcelain.

Later in the Yuan Dynasty, it was about 700, 800 years later –

is when they really developed the porcelain as we know it, the porcelain that Marco Polo found and brought back to Europe, and they just went wild for this stuff.

Yeah, a German alchemist, Johann Friedrich Brücher.

And he figured it out.

This was in, I guess, the 18th century.

And by the latter half of the 18th century, in the 1770s, they found that kaolin clay in Cornwall, England.