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Significats de china stone 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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        Examples for "kaolin"
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        The quartz of Civita Vecchia will give us kaolin for porcelain.
        The Roman Question
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        When woven they are given a coating of wet kaolin, which adds to their whiteness.
        The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It
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        Around the spring a curious conical mound of white finely powdered matter resembling kaolin had formed.
        Across Unknown South America
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        The man was studying his thin kaolin pipe.
        Stonewielder
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        She's a local shaman masked in white kaolin with long floor-length dreadlocks full of cowrie shells.
        The Irish Times
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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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        Real china ones are made of porcelain clay, and baked like chinaware or other pottery.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
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        Gold, porcelain clay, silver, copper, and petroleum are mined.
        Commercial Geography / A Book for High Schools, Commercial Cours...
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        This is the porcelain clay of human kind.
        Familiar Quotations
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        Kaolin, porcelain clay, and coarser clay, abound; but it is only at Belleek that it has been employed in the pottery manufacture.
        Men of Invention and Industry
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        With a love of using text, she extracts short emotive, 'poetic' captions and excerpts from the forums, which she has stamped into porcelain clay.
        Radio NZ
        Ús de china stone en anglès
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        The proposed China Stone mine site is the closest to Adani's planned mine in the coal-rich Galilee basin.
        News.com.au
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