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Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

I mean, it looks like lobster meat, but it's they're little, you know, it's like a shrimp size.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

I've never seen a langostina, though.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

Now that you mention it, I've never looked that up.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

I think that's what the creature looks like.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

Well, I mentioned earlier before the break about porcelain tile.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

It's very hardy tile for flooring or the wall.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

But if you're cutting porcelain tile, you're probably going to need a tile saw.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

We talked about wet saws before.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

They're wet because they are moving at such high speeds and drawing so much heat that the water cools off that blade.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

And there's a couple of ways you can actually form that tile.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

If it's up to like four feet by four feet, you basically have a special mold.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

But anything bigger than that and you're compacting it like just pressing layers and layers of ceramic powder until you get your desired size.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

That's right.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

You mentioned how valuable it can be.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

The world auction record for Chinese porcelain was set about, I don't know, in 2014, when the Mayan Tang chicken cup was sold for $36 million.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

And, you know, why is anything valuable?

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

It's because there's not many of them.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

It was crafted between 1465 and 87, when

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

Porcelain was just peaking at its quality, but they were producing the lowest amount.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

So it was just super rare.