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Gil Stengel has equated productive ceramic work with Zen meditation. Developing personal standards and aesthetics is important, as is proper instruction. Clay and glaze recipes and advice for kiln firing are presented.

Most data shows that the technique of salt glazing is not an environmental or health hazard as previously suggested. Ceramic art pottery kilns do not produce the concentrations of chlorine gas or hydrochloric acids in dangerous proportions.

A potter obtained a permit from the EPA so that he could operate his kiln. The kiln's 12 hr stoking operation produces a plume of dense black smoke that clears in about 90 sec. The man found that people at the EPA were very understanding. Some of the rules under the Clean Air Act are discussed.