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
- Drawings are produced by scraping away the ink to expose the china clay surface.
- Hao Town of walnut, persimmon, black urban and rural areas of china clay, are all known.
- Fine bone china is made from three main raw materials - china stone, china clay and animal bone.
- Foxgloves, bright polypody ferns and rushes thrive in the hollows of surface tin workings while wheel pits, settling tanks and buddles associated with the extraction of tin and china clay are masked by scrub, and the derelict structures colonised by spleenwort ferns and moss. Country diary: Bodmin Moor
- The biggest extractive industry in Cornwall today is the mining of china clay.
- It is made by adding a large quantity of mineral loading such as china clay, to the pulp in the beater and made very smooth by calendering.
- But china clay production has increased.
- Following Meissen and Sèvres products, British potters began to use china clay or kaolin, when in 1768 William Cookworthy, a Plymouth chemist, proved the potential of the kaolin reserves of Cornwall.
- Grown on a disused china clay pit, the project has helped regenerate the area.
- Surprisingly, many of these are inorganic minerals; for example talc and kaolin or china clay.
