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clay (n)
- plural
- clays
English Definitions:
clay (noun)
a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
mud, clay (noun)
water soaked soil; soft wet earth
Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay (noun)
United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)
Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser (noun)
United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)
cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains (noun)
the dead body of a human being
"the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"
clay (Noun)
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
clay (Noun)
An earth material with ductile qualities.
clay (Noun)
A tennis court surface.
clay (Noun)
The material of the human body.
clay (Noun)
A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
clay (Verb)
To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
clay (Verb)
To purify using clay.
Clay (ProperNoun)
transferred from the surname.
Clay (ProperNoun)
A surname.
Clay (ProperNoun)
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Clay (ProperNoun)
A diminutive of the male given name Clayton.
Clay (ProperNoun)
A town, the county seat of Clay County, West Virginia, United States.
Clay (ProperNoun)
Ellipsis of Clay County
Clay (ProperNoun)
A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Clay
Clay is a general term including many combinations of one or more clay minerals with traces of metal oxides and organic matter. Geologic clay deposits are mostly composed of phyllosilicate minerals containing variable amounts of water trapped in the mineral structure.
Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay particles, but become hard, brittle and non–plastic upon drying or firing. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide.Clay is the oldest known ceramic material. Prehistoric humans discovered the useful properties of clay and used it for making pottery. Some of the earliest pottery shards have been dated to around 14,000 BC, and clay tablets were the first known writing medium. Clay is used in many modern industrial processes, such as paper making, cement production, and chemical filtering. Between one-half and two-thirds of the world's population live or work in buildings made with clay, often baked into brick, as an essential part of its load-bearing structure. Clay is a very common substance. Shale, formed largely from clay, is the most common sedimentary rock. Although many naturally occurring deposits include both silts and clay, clays are distinguished from other fine-grained soils by differences in size and mineralogy. Silts, which are fine-grained soils that do not include clay minerals, tend to have larger particle sizes than clays. Mixtures of sand, silt and less than 40% clay are called loam. Soils high in swelling clays (expansive clay), which are clay minerals that readily expand in volume when they absorb water, are a major challenge in civil engineering.
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