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Recent Examples of kaolin
Oil-absorbing kaolin clay keeps shine at bay with zero sparkle, while squalane delivers deep hydration, making this blush a great pick even for drier skin.
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Allure, 14 Aug. 2025
Unlike traditional slow cookers or casserole dishes made from metal or glazed stoneware, the Claypot Oven uses untreated, mineral-rich kaolin clay as its base.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 9 July 2025
Quartz is just one of many minerals — there is also mica, feldspar and kaolin — that have kept the area economically relevant for centuries, and that will continue to sustain the region no matter the geopolitical climate, mine workers and local officials say.
—Mike Belleme, New York Times, 31 May 2025
At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Karen Scrivener and colleagues developed cements that blend calcined kaolin clay and ground limestone with a small portion of clinker.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2024
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Allure, 14 Aug. 2025
Unlike traditional slow cookers or casserole dishes made from metal or glazed stoneware, the Claypot Oven uses untreated, mineral-rich kaolin clay as its base.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 9 July 2025
Quartz is just one of many minerals — there is also mica, feldspar and kaolin — that have kept the area economically relevant for centuries, and that will continue to sustain the region no matter the geopolitical climate, mine workers and local officials say.
—Mike Belleme, New York Times, 31 May 2025
At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Karen Scrivener and colleagues developed cements that blend calcined kaolin clay and ground limestone with a small portion of clinker.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kaolin
Noun
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So, working out that musical movie with the clay of the songs that had already been written and how to work a new scenario around that became a really fun puzzle.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Sep. 2025
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Those intriguing chemical fingerprints include the iron-containing minerals vivianite and greigite, which Perseverance spotted in the clay-rich sediments of a long-dry lakebed.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As the rover’s instruments confirmed, the red is iron-rich mud, the purple is iron and phosphorous, the yellow and green are iron and sulfur.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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What's exciting is that a combination of mud and organic matter has reacted to produce these minerals and these textures, Hurowitz said.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The timing and intensity of peak foliage vary from year to year, depending on several factors, such as drought conditions, rainfall, temperature, soil content, and the types of trees, as well as cloud cover.—
Kyle Reiman,
ABC News,
16 Sep. 2025
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But cutting down forests to plant coffee and other crops releases carbon that was stored in trees and soil into the atmosphere.—
Marianne Krasny,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Kaolin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kaolin. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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