Wednesday, August 1, 2012

What was that periodic table thing again?

So...I haven't even thought about Chemistry since 9th grade science (which we will just say was a "few" years ago).

Anyway, I had a lesson in mixing glaze this week and apparently the periodic table and all of its contents are a lot more familiar to potters...

Of course dad writes his glaze recipes with symbols, not words, so after a brief refresher to the elements and their symbols it turned into a lot more like baking a giant cake...without the oven...

Actually a lot of fun, as long as you have someone to decipher the secret code! Ha! Not sure I'm ready to come up with my own recipes though...

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