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the controlled apocalypse that turns mud into your grandmother's good china.
means A furnace or oven built for the high-heat firing, drying, or hardening of materials like clay, lime, or grain.
from From Old English 'cyln' or 'cylen,' borrowed from Latin 'culina,' meaning kitchen or cooking-stove — itself a relative of 'coquere,' to cook. So the word that bakes pottery shares a hearth with the room where we still bake everything else.
Top heatHits 1300C, hotter than flowing lava.
Ancient techPottery kilns predate writing by millennia.
Bone chinaReal bone ash gets fired inside.
Self-immolationBad firing can explode trapped-water pots.
Word rootFrom Latin culina, meaning kitchen.