Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fine clay used in ceramics and refractories and as a filler or coating for paper and textiles.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fine variety of clay, resulting from the decomposition of feldspar. It is a hydrated silicate of aluminium. When pure it is perfectly white, and forms compact, friable, or mealy masses, made up of scalelike crystals. It is soft and unctuous to the touch. Kaolin forms one of the two ingredients in Oriental porcelain; the other, called in China petuntze, is a quartzose feldspathic rock. Kaolin occurs in China, Japan, Saxony, Cornwall, near Limoges in France, and at several localities in the United States; that from Limoges is used for the famous Sèvres porcelain. In mineralogy called
kaolinite .
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay. It is chiefly derived from the decomposition of common feldspar.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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)
Etymologies
- From Mandarin 高陵 (gāolíng, "high hill"), in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China, the location where this clay was first found. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Chinese (Mandarin) Gāolǐng, a mountain of Jiangxi province. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Aluminum silicate Also called kaolin, this clay mineral was the "kao" in antidiarrheal Kaopectate until 1989.”
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“Another crop they use is called kaolin (pronounced "gollin" in this country).”
“In relatively pure condition it is called kaolin; in the impure state, mixed with sand and other substances, it forms common clay.”
“In contrast, the Meissen factory created more impermeable ceramics like those made in China by combining a white clay called kaolin into the mix and firing the pieces at high temperatures.”
“It engages in iron ore mining, pellet production, manganese ore mining and ferroalloy production, as well as in the production of nonferrous minerals, such as kaolin, potash, copper and gold.”
“· Adsorbents, such as kaolin, pectin and activated charcoal.”
“If you want to make a china cup, you must have a fine sort of clay called "kaolin," which is pure white when it is fired and is not very common; but if you want to make bricks, it will not be at all difficult to find a suitable clay bank.”
“Besides the coloring, a "filler" is usually added at this time, such as kaolin, the fine clay of which china is made.”
“Watercolors appear more vivid than acrylics or oils because the pigments are laid down in a more pure form with fewer fillers (such as kaolin) obscuring the pigment colors.”
“Gut lining protectants such as kaolin and pectin are favored by some, but their effectiveness in stopping fluid and electrolyte loss has been questioned recently.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kaolin’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
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Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
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my dictionary
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
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potter's delight
kaolin, quartz, cornish stone, feldspar, fluorspar, flint, sand, grog, barytes, bismuth, gypsum, limestone and 27 more...
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CorpulentSesquipedalian's list
Words I a certain partiality/predilection/enthusiasm/zest for.
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Tweets
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fbharjo It is a community in Pennsylvania, isn't it? Oct 12, 2012
knitandpurl "My work required careful research (as patient as Gutenberg taking his time making an ink that was neither too fluid nor not fluid enough) to find a discrete way to starch the lips of these slits. I used kaolin."
Savage by Jacques Jouet, translated by Amber Shields, p 58 of the Dalkey Archive Press paperback edition Oct 12, 2012