Argile | |
gen. | clay |
argile | |
chem. | sound; loam |
construct. | adobe; clay, clay soil |
environ. | clay |
food.ind. law | calabash chalk; argila; calabar stone; ebumba |
compact | |
comp. | compact disk; CD; optical disk |
med. | confertus; crowded; squeezed |
phonol. | compact |
compacter | |
comp., MS | compact |
construct. | compact |
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sound; loam; ball clay | |||
adobe; clay, clay soil | |||
clay A loose, earthy, extremely fine-grained, natural sediment or soft rock composed primarily of clay-size or colloidal particles and characterized by high plasticity and by a considerable content of clay mineral and subordinate amounts of finely divided quartz, decomposed feldspar, carbonates, ferruginous matter, and other impurities; it forms a plastic, moldable mass when finely ground and mixed with water, retains its shape on drying, and becomes firm, rocklike and permanently hard on heating or firing | |||
calabash chalk; argila; calabar stone; ebumba | |||
marine clay (des polders); clunch; argil | |||
clay (particle size fraction); clay soil | |||
clay | |||
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