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  2. Clay - Wikipedia

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    Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals [1] (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al 2 Si 2 O 5 4). 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. [2] [3]

  3. Clay mineral - Wikipedia

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    Clay minerals are hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates (e.g. kaolin, Al 2 Si 2 O 5 4), sometimes with variable amounts of iron, magnesium, alkali metals, alkaline earths, and other cations found on or near some planetary surfaces.

  4. Clay (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Clay is a 2005 children's/young adult novel by David Almond.It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. [1]The story, told in first-person, is about two boys, Davie and Stephen, who can make clay come to life.

  5. Timeline of the discovery and classification of minerals

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    Neolithic Age (new stone era) beginning about 10,200 years ago: flint tools (diagenesis of marine microfossils, microcristalline opal and chalcedony), jade tools (usually nephrite, jadeitite or jadeite-jade is less common), kaolin earth (adobe bricks made by drying of clay), copper, gold, silver and rocksalt.

  6. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    The "clay body" is also called the "paste" or the "fabric", which consists of 2 things, the "clay matrix" – composed of grains of less than 0.02 mm grains which can be seen using the high-powered microscopes or a scanning electron microscope, and the "clay inclusions" – which are larger grains of clay and could be seen with the naked eye or ...

  7. Modelling clay - Wikipedia

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    Plasticine was invented in 1897 by William Harbutt of Bathampton, England. ... Polymer clay is a modelling material that cures when heated from 129 to 135 °C ...

  8. Structural clay tile - Wikipedia

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    Also called building tile, structural terra cotta, hollow tile, saltillo tile, and clay block, the material is an extruded clay shape with substantial depth that allows it to be laid in the same manner as other clay or concrete masonry. In North America it was chiefly used during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reaching peak popularity ...

  9. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Moche portrait vessel, Musée du quai Branly, ca. 100—700 CE, 16 x 29 x 22 cm Jane Osti (Cherokee Nation), with her award-winning pottery, 2006. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. [1]