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
This is the porcelain clay of human kind.
From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
Ay; these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And therefore cast into these noble moulds.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
Granite, composed of white quartz, porcelain clay, and greenish steatite, with veins of white quartz intersecting each other.
From Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Basil Hall
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 Sir Charles Lyell
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