What is the meaning of terra alba?

noun

  • Finely pulverized gypsum used especially as a pigment.
  • Fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather.
  • 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. ).
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