Kaolin [noun]
Definition of Kaolin:
workable earth material
Synonyms of Kaolin:
● Mud
● Brick
● Earth
● Pottery
● Slip
● Till
● Adobe
● Bole
● Clunch
● Marl
● Loam
● Loess
● Argil
● Wacke
Opposite/Antonyms of Kaolin:
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Sentence/Example of Kaolin:
The alkali species yield kaolin by alteration, and are thus the source of china-clay.
Established by M. Haffringue, in the 19th century, with the kaolin of Limoges.
Their faces are painted black across the whole mid section and the chins are covered with white kaolin—a really startling effect.
The kaolin is washed at the pit, and sent in this state to Sèvres, under the name of decanted earth.
This sieve is shaken upon its support, in order to make it discharge the washed argillaceous kaolin.
It is a good plan to make up a wash of equal parts of kaolin and flint and to brush this all over the inside of the kiln.
It may be necessary to improve the color by the use, in part, of another kaolin such as the Harris clay from North Carolina.
Growan stone and Cornish Kaolin were added to the cream ware body, which enabled earthenware to compete successfully with china.
It was kaolin, the great clay—the body or bones of porcelain.
What they lacked was the two fine materials known to the Chinese as kaolin and pe-tun-tse.