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Meanings of kaolin in English
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 "china clay"
Examples for "china clay"
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Now, the clay is easily penetrable, and the original hole probably pierced a bed of china clay.
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South-eastern China was also the chief centre of porcelain production, although china clay is found also in North 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.
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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.
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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.
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The proposed China Stone mine site is the closest to Adani's planned mine in the coal-rich Galilee basin.
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Real china ones are made of porcelain clay, and baked like chinaware or other pottery.
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Gold, porcelain clay, silver, copper, and petroleum are mined.
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This is the porcelain clay of human kind.
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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.
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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.
Usage of kaolin in English
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The quartz of Civita Vecchia will give us kaolin for porcelain.
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When woven they are given a coating of wet kaolin, which adds to their whiteness.
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Around the spring a curious conical mound of white finely powdered matter resembling kaolin had formed.
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The man was studying his thin kaolin pipe.
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She's a local shaman masked in white kaolin with long floor-length dreadlocks full of cowrie shells.
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Harris has found something up there besides kaolin and some copper, something he doesn't want us to know about.
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The name was taken from the Chinese mountain of Kailing, where the first kaolin, or decomposed feldspar, was found.
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There's definitely more kaolin here.
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Results: The central canal became occluded at the level of the kaolin injection and at one or more rostral levels.
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The phosphate of lime that is mixed with the kaolin renders the body of the ware more porous and elastic.
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Thirdly, Cornwall, a county in which I have not been, but which is sufficiently known as possessing kaolin and granite.
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Amakusa produces a little coal and fine kaolin, which was largely used in former times by the potters of Hirado and Satsuma.
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There were likewise fragments of green carbonate of copper and kaolin, a yellow ocher, and considerable vegetal matter mixed with the sand.
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Now you can imagine with a background of such progress at china-making, what a furore and transformation followed when kaolin was discovered.
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As a rule the crystals are roughly developed and rude columnar masses are common, these being frequently altered partially to kaolin or mica.
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Among these are gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, mica, corundum, graphite, manganese, kaolin, mill-stone grits, marble, barytes, oil shale, buhrstones, roofing slate, etc.
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