Is clay man made

Answer 1

See: http://www.crest.org/discussiongroups/resources/stoves/Boyt/ceramics/ceramics1.html You could spend a lifetime studying clay and its uses. Clay is basically the stuff in dirt that is non-organic, and not sand and rocks. It is always associated with water, but dried-up lakes and streams are the best sources. Clays used by Southwestern Anasazi is a mystery. A thousand years ago they made pottery just millimeters thick that survives today. Nobody (the legend goes) knows the source of this white clay. But some clay as polymer and modlying clay is made out of chemical h2o and rubber.

Answer 2

No, clay is a natural deposit of fine grained minerals, usually collected by a river.

Potters often add ingredients like sand and silica into dried powdered clay because it makes it easier to shape and reduces breakage during drying and firing.

Answer 3

Clay is a natural deposit which is dug from the ground; often it is then cleaned of stones, etc., maybe blended with other minerals and then becomes a 'manufactured' material in a sense.

Answer 4

It depends what the brand is, but it can be both!

Answer 5

Organic.