2. Verb. (third-person singular of clay) ¹
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Definition of Clays
1. clay [v] - See also: clay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clays
Literary usage of Clays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Tennessee Division of Geology, Geological Survey, Division of Geology, Tennessee (1910)
"The West Tennessee ball clays, which vitrify at cone 8 or 9, are used for this ware.
... Porcelain or china—This is made of a mixture of clays and minerals. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"These clays are made up chiefly of hydrous amorphous (colloidal) aluminum silicates
with variable amounts of free silica and other impurities in small ..."
3. Bulletin by Kentucky Geological Survey, Kentucky State Geologist (1905)
"PAGE Albany Slip Clay, Analysis of 170 Ballard County clays 92 to 96, 114 Bardwell
Brick Plant, Carlisle County 123 Ba/ren County Clay 180 ..."
4. Bulletin by Virginia Geological Survey, Virginia Division of Geology (1917)
"The crystalline rocks from which most of the Piedmont residual clays are derived
often ... COLLUVIAL clays. In many localities, the residual clays formed on ..."
5. Biennial report by North Dakota Geological Survey (1906)
"clays thus formed are the more common types, found at a greater or less distance
... They are called transported clays. clays are thus seen to be the final ..."
6. The Mineral Industry (1899)
"Character of clays Used.—The clays used in the manufacture of paving brick ...
The purer clays which are derived from the decomposition of feldspathic rocks ..."
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