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I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and it's just us, but it's Short Stuff.

And Chuck, this is the last episode of 2025.

That's right. And that's it. That's all I had to say about that. All right. Well, let's talk porcelain because porcelain isn't something I really knew much about. Neither. Until I did this research. And porcelain, as it turns out, you might know this, you might not, is a type of ceramic. It's a subset of ceramics. What?

They are both made of clay, and they're both kiln-fired.

But porcelain clay has a much higher density, and it's fired longer, and at higher temperatures.

And Thusley is much more durable, has very high performance characteristics, and it's, you know,

porcelain is that, that super hard mixing bowl that you got from your grandmother that, like,

you can't break, well, you can't break them, but just super hardy, super dense, non-porous,

clay-like material.

Yeah, I guess I haven't had much experience with porcelain because I always thought of it

as very delicate and highly breakable, but apparently that's not true.

And once I thought about it a little bit, it's like actually I have lifetime experience

with porcelain in the form of a toilet, but I hadn't really thought about that. Yeah, toilets,

yeah, they don't break. Try it. You can't do it. So there's three things that show up in any kind

of porcelain, and it's all natural. That's one of the big attractions of porcelain, too. It's clay, quartz,

and feldspar, which is a kind of rocket that can form from

all sorts of different stuff. And there's all sorts of other stuff you can throw in. But depending on

the kind of porcelain that you come up with, it's basically dependent on the materials you use,

the raw materials, and then how high a temperature and how long you fire it for in the kiln.

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