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THE CLAY PARTICLE
When we look at clay through an electron microscope, the clay
particles seen as a thin hexagonal plate, approximately 100
times longer than it is thick. (Note: Richard Burkett has
placed an image file of clay particles as seen under an electron
microscope in another directory of the Ceramics Gopher at SDSU.)
When we add the water of plasticity to the dry clay, moisture
between the flat plates creates a surface tension attraction so
that the particles do not easily pull apart, but they slide
easily over one another. The flat shape of the clay particle
and the surface tension when water is added gives the strength
and plasticity which we associate with clay in its workable state.
* http://ceramics.sdsu.edu/articles/glaze_tech/basic_clays.html
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