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The Germans were the first Europeans to figure out the ingredients for making hard paste porcelain. It had been manufactured in China, but they were not about to share the "recipe." Through trial and error workers at the Meissen factory discovered how to combine quartz, feldspar and kaolin to create porcelain. It was so valuable as to be known as white gold at the time.

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