Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several imperfectly determined minerals, or mixtures of minerals, all of which are hydrous silicates of alumina, and closely related to or identical with kaolin and kaolinite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A clay of a fine smooth texture, and very sectile.
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- noun
kaolinite
Etymologies
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Examples
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These are intermixed with masses and irregular beds of gray cinders and score, pumice, various kinds of lava, lithomarge, and fuller's earth.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829 Various
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The whole of the hill on which the fort of Gwâlior stands had evidently, at no very distant period, been covered by a mass of basalt, surmounted by a crust of indurated brown and red iron clay, with lithomarge, which often assumes the appearance of common laterite.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822
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The relation between laterite and lithomarge is discussed in p. 353 of the _Manual_, and the occurrence of laterite caps on the highest ground of the country, at two places-near Gwâlior, 'outside of the trap area', is noticed (ibid.p. 356).
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822
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