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KAOLINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Synonyms:
china clay; china stone; kaolin; kaoline; porcelain clay; terra alba
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("kaoline" is a kind of...):
clay (a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired)
Domain member category:
art paper (a high-quality paper (usually having a filler of china clay))
Holonyms ("kaoline" is a substance of...):
Kaopectate (trade name for a fixed-combination antidiarrheal drug that use kaolin as the adsorbent and pectin as the emollient)
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