These gorgeous pottery designs were created by a chemical reaction

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Mocha Diffusion is a pottery painting technique that involves a chemical reaction between an acid and a base liquid. The resulting designs are intricately beautiful.

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Kevin Kowalski, a ceramics teacher from California is reviving this technique, which dates back to the 1780s.

Story and editing by Carl Mueller.

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