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 "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 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.
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 .
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