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China clay

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of china clay. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Synonym of kaolin. countable, uncountable

    "Particularly engaging management's attention is the expanding market for china clay, which is mined in a sector of the Cornwall peninsula between St Austell in the south and Newquay in the north."

  3. 3
    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) wordnet

Etymology

From its chief original use in Jingdezhen, China.

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