Argil vs. Clay — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Argil and Clay
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Argil
Clay, especially a white clay used by potters.
Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals. 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.
Argil
Potter's clay.
Clay
A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics
A clay soil
A clay tile
The soil is mainly clay
The rocks are covered by various mixtures of loose clays and sands
Argil
Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay.
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Clay
A European moth with yellowish-brown wings.
Argil
A white clay (especially a white clay used by potters)
Clay
A fine-grained, firm earthy material that is plastic when wet and hardens when heated, consisting primarily of hydrated silicates of aluminum and widely used in making bricks, tiles, and pottery.
Clay
A hardening or nonhardening material having a consistency similar to clay and used for modeling.
Clay
(Geology) A sedimentary material with grains smaller than 0.002 millimeter in diameter.
Clay
Moist sticky earth; mud.
Clay
The human body as opposed to the spirit.
Clay
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
Clay
An earth material with ductile qualities.
Clay
(tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
The French Open is played on clay.
Clay
(biblical) The material of the human body.
Clay
(geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
Clay
A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
Clay
A clay pigeon.
We went shooting clays at the weekend.
Clay
(informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims
Danzig is rightfully German clay.
Clay
(transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
Clay
To purify using clay.
Clay
A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
Clay
Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
I also am formed out of the clay.
The earth is covered thick with other clay,Which her own clay shall cover.
Clay
To cover or manure with clay.
Clay
To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
Clay
A very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
Clay
Water soaked soil; soft wet earth
Clay
United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)
Clay
United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)
Clay
The dead body of a human being
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