china clay

See also: China clay

English

Noun

china clay (countable and uncountable, plural china clays)

(mineralogy) Kaolin.
- 1964 July, G. Freeman Allen, “The Traffic Divisions of British Railways–2: Plymouth—test-bed for road-rail co-ordination: Part Two”, in Modern Railways, page 29:
  Particularly engaging management's attention is the expanding market for china clay, which is mined in a sector of the Cornwall peninsula between St Austell in the south and Newquay in the north.

Translations

china clay — see also kaolin

Bulgarian: каолин m (kaolin)
Norwegian:
Norwegian Bokmål: porselensjord m or f

Norwegian Nynorsk: porselensjord f

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