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Silica

Silica is the basic raw material for faience. Ordinary desert sand is rich in silica, but it is poor in quality.

High-grade silica was produced by crushing quartz pebbles, perhaps

by repeated heating and cooling.

Further reading: Nicholson 1998: 50.

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