porcelain clay
Britishnoun
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A rough mantelpiece teemed with small bright objets d’art made of plaster, porcelain, clay, and milk glass.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
The purest clay found in nature is porcelain clay, or kaolin, which results from the decomposition of a rock composed of feldspar and quartz, and it is almost always mixed with quartz.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
The minerals worked include copper, quicksilver, manganese, cobalt, porcelain clay, alabaster, graphite.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
The Chinese name for a kind of porcelain clay.
From The Mysterious Island by White, Stephen W.
Decomposing fine-grained rock; composed of flesh-coloured feldspar, white quartz, and porcelain clay.
From Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Hall, Basil
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