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). |
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Synonyms | china stone, kaolin, kaoline, porcelain clay, terra alba |
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Category of | art paper | A high-quality paper (usually having a filler of china clay) |
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Broader | clay | A very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired |
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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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Spanish | caolín |
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Catalan | caolí |
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