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Originally Posted by Hard8s
Whats the difference in Ceramic and Stoneware? Are regular flowerpots Stoneware or Cermaic? Are they not all made from the same materials?
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Stoneware is really frickin hard ceramic. It gets this way by being fired at a very, very high temeperature.
Most regular ol' flowerpots would melt or disintigrate in the kiln if you fired them at cone 10.
There are a zillion kinds of clay, all of which can be fired and made into "ceramics." I THINK that most flowerpots made in Mexico are relatively fragile. They are fired at a very low temperature. Though they look the same, pots made in Italy are made of higer-fire clay, and are much harder.