| 单词 | terra alba |
| 释义 | terra alba (once / 1181932 pages) n WORD FAMILY terra alba USAGE EXAMPLESTerra alba, white clay, which is fine as sugar, and is sieved into cream work or on candy, and worked into it. Bogardus, C. A., One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Ri...(2010) 1n fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather Syn|Hyper pipeclay clay a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired 2n 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) Syn|Hyper china clay, china stone, kaolin, kaoline, porcelain clay clay a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired 3n finely pulverized gypsum used especially as a pigment Hyper gypsum a common white or colorless mineral (hydrated calcium sulphate) used to make cements and plasters (especially plaster of Paris) |
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