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Meanings of porcelain clay in English

Catalan
caolí
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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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        Usage of porcelain clay in English
        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
        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.
        Radio NZ
        6
        She and they were both clay, to be sure, but she was of the finest porcelain clay and they of the coarsest potter's earth.
        Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
        7
        The name is now applied to all porcelain clays which endure the fire without discoloration.
        The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section I, J, K, ...
        Translations for porcelain clay
        Catalan
        caolí