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Why is clay used to make pottery items?

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Soft clay must be used on a potter's wheel to create pottery, and then fired in a pottery oven

ADDED: It's pretty much clay-ware by the definition of "pottery"! :-) It's used because it has particular qualities that allow it to be shaped and fused by heat to produce articles that are functional, decorative - or both - in their own characteristic ways.

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