kaolin

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for kaolin
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Qatar denounces ‘cowardly’ Israeli strike targeting Hamas leaders Israel launched an aerial strike against senior Hamas leaders in Doha on Tuesday, in its first direct attack on Qatari soil, marking a significant escalation in regional tensions.
    Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • What Mill does is preserve food as a resource, keeping nutrients intact so they can be used to feed soil or farms.
    Chelsea Davis, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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