i (rena, more artsy girl) work with clay when making ceramic pottery. when throwing some on a wheel (especially electric wheels!) we have observed that trimming some clay off while moist does effect the properties of the clay around it. the surrounding clay absorbs water more readily, and i find sorta “slips”. miele (very engineer-y) describes it kinda like a shear—i’m personally not too sure hehe—but the material seems weakened in such a way.
as such i tend to avoid this practice! nonetheless, your writing reminded me of this phenomenon. while it is worthwhile to note the likelihood of the causes for my dilemmas at times with clay being quite different than the mechanisms at hand in your research, i still find it fun to draw lines between dots like this, even if i know next to nothing technical about the topic at hand :)
as cela (we view her personality as “lets do some shit and see what happens”, half for fun and half to learn) i personally am tired as hell and currently don’t wanna inadvertently go into a 4am deep dive on the subject (not this night anyways, perhaps another one :3). still, i’ve always had much respect for geology, so please do recommend any interesting reads. the summer is long! me and miele love old textbooks, but if you have any other literature you wanna share please don’t be shy.
thnx for the writing!!
i (rena, more artsy girl) work with clay when making ceramic pottery. when throwing some on a wheel (especially electric wheels!) we have observed that trimming some clay off while moist does effect the properties of the clay around it. the surrounding clay absorbs water more readily, and i find sorta “slips”. miele (very engineer-y) describes it kinda like a shear—i’m personally not too sure hehe—but the material seems weakened in such a way.
as such i tend to avoid this practice! nonetheless, your writing reminded me of this phenomenon. while it is worthwhile to note the likelihood of the causes for my dilemmas at times with clay being quite different than the mechanisms at hand in your research, i still find it fun to draw lines between dots like this, even if i know next to nothing technical about the topic at hand :)
as cela (we view her personality as “lets do some shit and see what happens”, half for fun and half to learn) i personally am tired as hell and currently don’t wanna inadvertently go into a 4am deep dive on the subject (not this night anyways, perhaps another one :3). still, i’ve always had much respect for geology, so please do recommend any interesting reads. the summer is long! me and miele love old textbooks, but if you have any other literature you wanna share please don’t be shy.
again, thank you so much!! stay comfy
Woah, if you all team up you could make big pots for radioactive things.