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Definition of Bleaching clay
1. Noun. An adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bleaching Clay
Literary usage of Bleaching clay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"In the selection of a bleaching clay, care should be exercised to make a test of
the sample on a laboratory scale against a sample of known bleaching power ..."
2. A Cornish Parish: Being an Account of St. Austell, Town, Church, District by Joseph Hammond (1897)
"... however, is used for porcelain.6 Of bleaching clay, some goes to Manchester,
where it is used as a dressing to stiffen as well as to whiten the calicoes ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1881)
"Blasting-stick. A simple form of fuse. Bleaching-clay, CORN. Kaolin, used with
size, to whiten and give weight and substance to cotton goods. ..."
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