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Significats de china clay en anglès

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A fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper)

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        Ús de china clay en anglès
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        Now, the clay is easily penetrable, and the original hole probably pierced a bed of china clay.
        The Lair of the White Worm
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        South-eastern China was also the chief centre of porcelain production, although china clay is found also in North China.
        A History of China
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        If it seems different than the rest of Cornwall, that's because it's entirely man-made, a result of china clay mining.
        BBC
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        Nearby in a disused china clay pit, they were moving tonnes of earth around, there was mud and deep puddles everywhere.
        The Guardian
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        As a real plane makes its final approach into Newquay airport you fly over all the china clay pits around St Austell.
        The Guardian
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        After heavy rain it became swollen, and was then quite milky from the china clay that it washed away from the banks farther up.
        Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01
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        On going out of Fowey we passed a number of coasters loaded with china clay, which is found in large quantities near this town.
        A Yacht Voyage Round England
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        They want to set up a china clay factory on Penbeacon, and turn the Ewe, not to say the Leston, into milk and water.
        The Long Vacation
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        Cargo, China clay: W. P., age about eighteen, fair skin, reddish hair, short and curled, height 5ft.
        The Ship of Stars
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        The paint company uses natural ingredients such as linseed oil and China clay, not harmful ammonia and formaldehyde.
        The Irish Times
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        China Clay turned out to be poisonous, to begin with, which probably accounted in part for Granny's foul disposition.
        Memoirs of a geisha: a novel
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        24,000 pounds of sal soda, 22,000 pounds of oil of vitriol, 22,000 pounds of China clay, etc.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
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