Meanings of kaolin in English

The quartz of Civita Vecchia will give us kaolin for porcelain.

When woven they are given a coating of wet kaolin, which adds to their whiteness.

Around the spring a curious conical mound of white finely powdered matter resembling kaolin had formed.

The man was studying his thin kaolin pipe.

She's a local shaman masked in white kaolin with long floor-length dreadlocks full of cowrie shells.

Harris has found something up there besides kaolin and some copper, something he doesn't want us to know about.

The name was taken from the Chinese mountain of Kailing, where the first kaolin, or decomposed feldspar, was found.

There's definitely more kaolin here.

Results: The central canal became occluded at the level of the kaolin injection and at one or more rostral levels.

The phosphate of lime that is mixed with the kaolin renders the body of the ware more porous and elastic.

Thirdly, Cornwall, a county in which I have not been, but which is sufficiently known as possessing kaolin and granite.

Amakusa produces a little coal and fine kaolin, which was largely used in former times by the potters of Hirado and Satsuma.

There were likewise fragments of green carbonate of copper and kaolin, a yellow ocher, and considerable vegetal matter mixed with the sand.

Now you can imagine with a background of such progress at china-making, what a furore and transformation followed when kaolin was discovered.

As a rule the crystals are roughly developed and rude columnar masses are common, these being frequently altered partially to kaolin or mica.

Among these are gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, mica, corundum, graphite, manganese, kaolin, mill-stone grits, marble, barytes, oil shale, buhrstones, roofing slate, etc.