noun
- Finely pulverized gypsum used especially as a pigment.
- Fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather.
- synonyms: pipeclay
- 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
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