Crossword clues for kaolin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clay \Clay\ (kl[=a]), n. [AS. cl[=ae]g; akin to LG. klei, D. klei, and perh. to AS. cl[=a]m clay, L. glus, gluten glue, Gr. gloio`s glutinous substance, E. glue. Cf. Clog.]
A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
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(Poetry & Script.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
I also am formed out of the clay.
--Job xxxiii. 6.The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover.
--Byron.Bowlder clay. See under Bowlder.
Brick clay, the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned.
Clay cold, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate.
Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand.
Clay marl, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay.
Clay mill, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill.
Clay pit, a pit where clay is dug.
Clay slate (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite.
Fatty clays, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as halloysite, bole, etc.
Fire clay, a variety of clay, entirely free from lime, iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for fire brick.
Porcelain clay, a very pure variety, formed directly from the decomposition of feldspar, and often called kaolin.
Potter's clay, a tolerably pure kind, free from iron.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"china clay," 1727, from French kaolin (1712), from Chinese Kao-ling, old-style transliteration of the name of a mountain in Jiangxi, China (near which it was originally dug up), from Chinese gao "high" + ling "mountain, hill."
Wiktionary
n. A fine clay, rich in kaolinite, used in ceramics, paper-making, etc.
WordNet
n. 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) [syn: china clay, china stone, kaoline, porcelain clay, terra alba]
Usage examples of "kaolin".
I prescribed a kaolin antacid mixture to be given night and morning and left the house in a confident frame of mind.
Several men sat pounding kaolin clay rock to make caulking paste for the boats.
The attendant on the east side of the rug having completed his twelve sticks, painted them white with kaolin finely ground and mixed with water.
Mines of great value exist in the Ural, Obdorsk and Altai mountains, which produce gold, copper, iron, silver, platinum, rock-salt, marble and kaolin or china clay.
Then Marat asked Simonne to fetch some more kaolin solution for the water.
Only a hard paste, or kaolin ware, is acknowledged by experts to be genuine porcelain.
By putting the kaolin and the petuntse together in the right proportions, moulding the clay, and afterward applying to it a glaze of some sort the Chinese made their porcelain, and very beautiful porcelain it was.
The name was taken from the Chinese mountain of Kailing, where the first kaolin, or decomposed feldspar, was found.
Certainly there were a great many activities available for everyone, what with laying out the irrigation system and collecting the kaolin and the materials for ore extraction and so on.
That is because the kaolin, the clay in this one, is so pure, so rare, so magnificent, that it requires nothing else.
To pamper herself, she mixed up a toning face pack of elder flowers, yogurt and kaolin powder, lounging in the tub with harp music and iced juice while it worked its magic.
Anyway, I'm just a cheap quarter-sized reddish-orange golem, imprinted off the gray he captured at Kaolin Manor on Tuesday.
For years Aeneas Kaolin nagged Father to work on one of the hardest questions in soulistics -- the non-homologous imprinting problem.
Different vats contained different grades of clay, ranging from common red clay to fine white kaolin, resembling enormous mugs abrim with liquid chocolate or heavy cream.
After scraping, the hide was soaked in ammonia, then washed with saponifying roots that made a soapy lather, then softened with the brain mixture and burnished with powdered kaolin, a fine white clay mixed in very pure tallow.