kiln
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At a cavernous facility in Morbi, in India's western Gujarat state, a 200-metre-long propane-powered kiln that normally fires clay nonstop is silent.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
Conch and Huawei have developed AI tools for more precisely predicting clinker strength, as well as for controlling energy use at the kiln where it is made.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
The handprint found underneath was probably made when someone, perhaps the potter, moved the house out of the workshop to dry before firing in a kiln, according to the researchers.
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025
I became addicted to the feel of clay, the triumph-failure cycle of the wheel, the loop-de-loop of joy and horror when pieces finally emerged from the kiln.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024
Mrs. Levy herself, during a ceramics phase, had once commandeered one of the furnaces for a kiln.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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