Clay vs Shale - What's the difference?
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A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust.
An earth material with ductile qualities.
(lb) A tennis court surface.
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(lb) The material of the human body.
*1611 , Old Testament , King James Version, (w) 10:8-9:
*1611 , Old Testament , King James Version, (w) 64:8:
*:But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay , and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand.
(lb) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A clay pigeon.
To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
(of sugar) To purify using clay.
* 1776 , , Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies,
* 1809', Jonathan Williams, ''
* 1985 , Stuart B. Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835 ,
A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
* Chapman
(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 23, author=Patricia Leigh Brown, title=The Window Box Gets Some Tough Competition, work=New York Times
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To take off the shell or coat of.
In geology terms the difference between clay and shale
is that clay is a particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale while shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.As nouns the difference between clay and shale
is that clay is a mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics while shale is a shell or husk; a cod or pod.As verbs the difference between clay and shale
is that clay is to add clay to, to spread clay onto while shale is to take off the shell or coat of.As a proper noun Clay
is {{surname|from=occupations}.clay
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay .
Antonyms
* (material of the human body) soul, spiritHyponyms
* kaolin, kaoline * ball clay * fire clay * potter's clayDerived terms
* ball clay * claying * clayen * clayey * claymation * clay pigeon * fire clay * modelling clay * potter's claySee also
* alluviumVerb
(en verb)- They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying' or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of ' claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.
On the Process of '''ClayingSugar'', in ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society , Volume 6.
page 200,
- The Portuguese had mastered the technique of claying sugar, and other European nations tried to learn the secrets from them.
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Anagrams
*shale
English
(wikipedia shale)Noun
(en noun)- the green shales of a bean
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