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PORCELAIN CLAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does porcelain clay mean?
• PORCELAIN CLAY (noun)
The noun PORCELAIN CLAY has 1 sense:
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)
Familiarity information: PORCELAIN CLAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
china clay; china stone; kaolin; kaoline; porcelain clay; terra alba
Hypernyms ("porcelain clay" is a kind of...):
clay (a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired)
Domain member category:
art paper (a high-quality paper (usually having a filler of china clay))
Holonyms ("porcelain clay" is a substance of...):
Kaopectate (trade name for a fixed-combination antidiarrheal drug that use kaolin as the adsorbent and pectin as the emollient)
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