kaolin

[ US /ˈkaʊɫɪn, ˈkeɪoʊɫɪn/ ]
[ UK /kˈe‍ɪəlˌɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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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  • · Adsorbents, such as kaolin, pectin and activated charcoal. Chapter 6
  • It engages in iron ore mining, pellet production, manganese ore mining and ferroalloy production, as well as in the production of nonferrous minerals, such as kaolin, potash, copper and gold. Five BRIC Strength Stocks
  • The flake mica produced in the U.S. comes from several sources: the metamorphic rock called schist as a by-product of processing feldspar and kaolin resources, from placer deposits, and from pegmatites. Mica
  • Three types of soils, residual soils, kaolinite and bentonite, were used in the study.
  • As the petuntse, which can only be found in China, melts, it is the kaolin that helps retain the piece's shape. Xml's Blinklist.com
  • The rivers of the Park are lined with beaches of white sand and white nutrient-poor kaolinic hydromorphic soils during the dry season and flood over the surrounding forest during the wet season. Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil
  • These include clay minerals such as kaolinite and talc, micas, montmorillonites, and the remainder of the asbestos minerals including chrysotile (white asbestos).
  • 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 Story of Porcelain
  • Local imitation of Chinese wares and, later, imitations of those imitations depended on the discovery of native deposits of kaolin or of similar nonfusible earth. 32 reference Projects to invent, or reinvent a product as good as porcelain included geological ventures and mineralogical comparisons as well as chemical tests of porcelain bodies and coloring experiments. 33 The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • Gold is associated with extensive zones of vuggy silica, quartz-alunite and quartz-dickite-kaolinite alteration. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
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