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2. Pit fired pottery - Wikipedia

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   The filled pit is then set on fire and carefully tended until most of the inner fuel has been consumed. At around 1,100 °C (2,010 °F) the maximum temperatures are moderate compared to other techniques used for pottery, [4] and the pottery produced counts as earthenware. After cooling, pots are removed and cleaned; there may be patterns and ...

3. Fire glass - Wikipedia

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   Fire glass (also fire pit glass, fire rocks, fire beads or lava glass) is a type of tempered glass, chunks of which are used decoratively on fireplaces. Pieces of the glass are heaped around jets of burning gas, or around liquid ethanol , in order to conceal the jets and reflect the flames. [ 1 ]

4. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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   Prior to contact, pottery was usually open-air fired or pit fired; precontact Indigenous peoples of Mexico used kilns extensively. Today many Native American ceramic artists use kilns . In pit-firing, the pot is placed in a shallow pit dug into the earth along with other unfired pottery, covered with wood and brush, or dung, then set on fire ...

5. Burnishing (pottery) - Wikipedia

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   Burnishing gives pottery a reflective surface without having to use a ceramic glaze. [5] It is described as a low-tech way of finishing pottery because burnished pottery needs to be fired below 1832F (1000C), which is different from firing glaze. [5] Burnishing can also be a step towards preparing pottery for pit firing, saggar firing, or raku. [5]

6. 'Extremely dangerous': Feds urge against using select fire ...

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   Herm and Thelma Stolzenburg, both 93, died when the tabletop fire pit suddenly exploded and engulfed the two in a tragic accident, local stations WBZ-TV and WMUR-TV reported. The couple, who were ...

7. Fire rock - Wikipedia

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   Fire rocks are used in natural gas fireplaces or in natural gas or propane burning fire pits. It may be used as the main fuel distributor or as padding for fire glass to go on top. Fire rocks are proven to increase combustion efficiency and maintain a desirable aesthetic quality. They also are known for dispersing the flame of the fireplace or ...

8. Saggar - Wikipedia

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   Saggars in use in the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres Bungs of saggars inside a bottle kiln. A saggar (also misspelled as sagger or segger) is a type of kiln furniture. [1] [2] [3] It is a ceramic boxlike container used in the firing of pottery to enclose or protect ware being fired inside a kiln.

9. Fire pit - Wikipedia

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   A fire pit. The defining feature of fire pits is that they are designed to contain fire and prevent it from spreading. A fire pit can vary from a pit dug in the ground (fire hole) to an elaborate gas burning structure of stone, brick, and metal. Certain contemporary fire pit styles include fire bowls that can either be set in the ground or ...