NOUN
- 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)
How To Use china clay In A Sentence
- Grown on a disused china clay pit, the project has helped regenerate the area.
- Scraperboard a board prepared with black indian ink over a china clay surface.
- Scraperboard a board prepared with black indian ink over a china clay surface.
- Much of the china clay went to the Potteries of Staffordshire to be made into crockery - cups, saucers and plates.
- Drawings are produced by scraping away the ink to expose the china clay surface.
- The grit settles in the quarries and the milk-white water is pumped up into tanks where the china clay settles slowly.
- They make stoneware, porcelain and ‘raku’ at the pottery, using simple ingredients such as Dorset clay ball, Devon china clay, local sand, granite from Cornwall, feldspars, limestone and basalt from Somerset.
- Coated Paper: Paper having china clay or other similar substance applied to one or both sides to provide smoothness.
- Surprisingly, many of these are inorganic minerals; for example talc and kaolin or china clay.
- Drawings are produced by scraping away the ink to expose the china clay surface.
