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Definition of China stone
1. Noun. 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).
Substance meronyms: Kaopectate
Examples of category: Art Paper
Generic synonyms: Clay
Lexicographical Neighbors of China Stone
Literary usage of China stone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"China-stone is sometimes known ns ' Cornish stone ' in consequence of its being
... (For an account of the occurrence of china-stone in Cornwall, see Mem. ..."
2. Journal by Folk-Song Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"The chief causes which I believe to have led to its disintegration, and not only
to the formation of China- stone, or China-clay, but to that of all the ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"China-stone is sometimes known as ' Cornish stone ' in consequence of its being
... The conditions under which the china-stone has been formed are obscure ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Tbil china stone (see Cork, Treatise m China Clay, 1880) is not a pare ...
In using the Cornish china stone, therefore, various natural ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"This was the Breage china stone, but, containing black particles which burnt red,
it. was not fitted for a porcelain glaze. ..."
6. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1853)
"An Essay on the China-stone and China-clays of Cornwall, with a description of
... and is not, as far as is at present known with regard to china stone, ..."
7. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1854)
"An Essay on the China-stone and China-clays of Cornwall, with a Description of
some Mechanical Improvements in the Mode of Preparation of the latter. ..."
8. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"[A very large quantity of valuable china clay and china stone are found naturally
and prepared artificially iu Cornwall and Devon, chiefly from the St. ..."
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