clay pigeon | target used in skeet or trapshooting |
clay pipe | a pipe made of clay |
mold mould molding moulding modeling clay sculpture | sculpture produced by molding |
cadaver corpse stiff clay remains | 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 |
mineral water | water naturally or artificially impregnated with mineral salts or gasses, often effervescent, often used therapeutically |
mineral kingdom | all inorganic objects, contrasts with animal and plant kingdoms |
vein mineral vein | a layer of ore between layers of rock |
Ali Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay Cassius Marcellus Clay | United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in ) |
Clay Henry Clay the Great Compromiser | United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (-) |
Clay Lucius Clay Lucius DuBignon Clay | United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from to and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (-) |
Frick Henry Clay Frick | United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (-) |
mineral resources | natural resources in the form of minerals |
mineral extraction mineral processing mineral dressing ore processing ore dressing beneficiation | crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques |
mineral deficiency | lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism |
mineral | solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition |
ader wax earth wax mineral wax ozokerite ozocerite | a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum, some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles |
asphalt mineral pitch | a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation, consists mainly of hydrocarbons |
china clay china stone kaolin kaoline porcelain clay terra alba | a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar), used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper) |
maltha mineral tar | a thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt |
red clay | clay whose redness results from iron oxide |
residual soil residual clay | the soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved |
mineral wool rock wool | a light fibrous material used as an insulator |
bleaching clay bleaching earth | an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils |
clay | a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired |
potter's clay potter's earth | clay that does not contain any iron, used in making pottery or for modeling |
indurated clay | hardened clay |
mineral oil | a distillate of petroleum (especially one used medicinally as a laxative or stool softener) |
mud clay | water soaked soil, soft wet earth |
petrolatum petroleum jelly mineral jelly | a semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum, used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication |
sedimentary clay | clay soil formed by sedimentary deposits |
till boulder clay | unstratified soil deposited by a glacier, consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together |
pipe-clay | whiten or clean with pipe-clay, pipe-clay leather |
mineral | composed of matter other than plant or animal, the inorganic mineral world |
mineral | relating to minerals, mineral elements, mineral deposits |