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Meanings of china clay in English
Synonyms
Examples for "kaolin"
Examples for "kaolin"
1
The quartz of Civita Vecchia will give us kaolin for porcelain.
2
When woven they are given a coating of wet kaolin, which adds to their whiteness.
3
Around the spring a curious conical mound of white finely powdered matter resembling kaolin had formed.
4
The man was studying his thin kaolin pipe.
5
She's a local shaman masked in white kaolin with long floor-length dreadlocks full of cowrie shells.
1
The proposed China Stone mine site is the closest to Adani's planned mine in the coal-rich Galilee basin.
1
Real china ones are made of porcelain clay, and baked like chinaware or other pottery.
2
Gold, porcelain clay, silver, copper, and petroleum are mined.
3
This is the porcelain clay of human kind.
4
Kaolin, porcelain clay, and coarser clay, abound; but it is only at Belleek that it has been employed in the pottery manufacture.
5
With a love of using text, she extracts short emotive, 'poetic' captions and excerpts from the forums, which she has stamped into porcelain clay.
Usage of china clay in English
1
Now, the clay is easily penetrable, and the original hole probably pierced a bed of china clay.
2
South-eastern China was also the chief centre of porcelain production, although china clay is found also in North 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.
4
Nearby in a disused china clay pit, they were moving tonnes of earth around, there was mud and deep puddles everywhere.
5
As a real plane makes its final approach into Newquay airport you fly over all the china clay pits around St Austell.
6
After heavy rain it became swollen, and was then quite milky from the china clay that it washed away from the banks farther up.
7
On going out of Fowey we passed a number of coasters loaded with china clay, which is found in large quantities near this town.
8
They want to set up a china clay factory on Penbeacon, and turn the Ewe, not to say the Leston, into milk and water.
9
Cargo, China clay: W. P., age about eighteen, fair skin, reddish hair, short and curled, height 5ft.
10
The paint company uses natural ingredients such as linseed oil and China clay, not harmful ammonia and formaldehyde.
11
China Clay turned out to be poisonous, to begin with, which probably accounted in part for Granny's foul disposition.
12
24,000 pounds of sal soda, 22,000 pounds of oil of vitriol, 22,000 pounds of China clay, etc.