This article on porcelain is terriffic. I've been slip casting my own porcelain formula for nearly 40 years, and wish I had read it way back when I was first starting out! You provide exceedingly useful information- especially pertaining to the difficulties of trying to maintain consistency in a world of materials that are changing rapidly or disappearing entirely!
If, like Japan, Canada had a custom of selecting certain artisans as “national treasures“ you would certainly qualify - not only for your expertise as a ceramic chemist, but for your compassion for us less expert potters!
Learning ceramics has been a long process full of tests, frustration but at the end full satisfaction once we learn more every day... Thank you for your website, I use it for constant reference