layer of clay
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflayerandclay
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layer
noun[C]
uk/ˈleɪ.ər/us/ˈleɪ.ɚ/
a level of material, such as a type of rock or gas, that is different from the material above or below it, or a thin sheet of ...
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clay
noun[U]
uk/kleɪ/us/kleɪ/
thick, heavy soil that is soft when wet, and hard when dry or baked, used for making bricks ...
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(Definition oflayerandclayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Below the subsoil is a 6 in thicklayerofclayloam.
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Important and private clay tablets were coated with an extralayerofclay, that no one else would read it.
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The same low survival rate was obtained behind a thinlayerofclayacting as an optical filter.
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A thinlayerofclaydid not protect the spores, if it was placed at some distance (about 5 mm) from the spore layer.
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Unprotected spores in layers open to space or behind a quartz window, even behind a thinlayerofclay, survived barely, if at all, the space trip.
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It is possible that magma fragmented at a very shallow depth, in thelayerofclay, thus forming the morphologically wider shape that is typical of a tuff ring.
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It could be grouted or covered with a nine-inchlayerofclayfollowed by nine inches of soil reserved from the land on which the dump is situated.
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Water from the slip is absorbed into the mould leaving alayerofclaybody covering its internal surfaces and taking its internal shape.
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On one of the edges a simple fireplace was built out of a smoothedlayerofclay.
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Sediment washed down from the higher mountains settled in the lake bottoms forming alayerofclay.
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The plateau areas are covered in a thinlayerofclay-sand silt that has been deposited there by the wind.
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A layer of buffalo, oxen or cattle chips which was then covered over with a well packedlayerofclay.
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This outerlayerofclayis then cut into pieces and removed before it dries completely.
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This was then coated in a smoothedlayerofclayand finished with a white lime wash.
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Exactly at the boundary is alayerofclay.
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The northern half was not lined; the southern half has been lined with alayerofclayand a geo-membrane liner.
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The surface of the island consists of a 2-meter deeplayerofclaycomposed of volcanic ash.
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Anotherlayerofclayis applied to form a false bell.
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The structure of the moss is peat, on top of alayerofclay, in which is embedded whole (and fragments of) tree trunks.
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There is alayerofclay, sand and gravel alluvium overlaying this in the river channel.
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One layer of oxygen is replaced with hydroxyls, which produces strong hydrogen bonds to the oxygen in the nextlayerofclay.
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Gold was usually found on top of false bedrock, alayerofclaythat occurred at the base of the beach or stream deposit.
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