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Meanings of terra alba in 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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        argila blanca

        Fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather.

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              Examples for "kaolin"
              Examples for "kaolin"
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              The quartz of Civita Vecchia will give us kaolin for porcelain.
              The Roman Question
              2
              When woven they are given a coating of wet kaolin, which adds to their whiteness.
              The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It
              3
              Around the spring a curious conical mound of white finely powdered matter resembling kaolin had formed.
              Across Unknown South America
              4
              The man was studying his thin kaolin pipe.
              Stonewielder
              5
              She's a local shaman masked in white kaolin with long floor-length dreadlocks full of cowrie shells.
              The Irish Times
              1
              Now, the clay is easily penetrable, and the original hole probably pierced a bed of china clay.
              The Lair of the White Worm
              2
              South-eastern China was also the chief centre of porcelain production, although china clay is found also in North China.
              A History of China
              3
              If it seems different than the rest of Cornwall, that's because it's entirely man-made, a result of china clay mining.
              BBC
              4
              Nearby in a disused china clay pit, they were moving tonnes of earth around, there was mud and deep puddles everywhere.
              The Guardian
              5
              As a real plane makes its final approach into Newquay airport you fly over all the china clay pits around St Austell.
              The Guardian
              1
              The proposed China Stone mine site is the closest to Adani's planned mine in the coal-rich Galilee basin.
              News.com.au
              1
              Real china ones are made of porcelain clay, and baked like chinaware or other pottery.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
              2
              Gold, porcelain clay, silver, copper, and petroleum are mined.
              Commercial Geography / A Book for High Schools, Commercial Cours...
              3
              This is the porcelain clay of human kind.
              Familiar Quotations
              4
              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
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