soft clay

collocation in English

meaningsofsoftandclay

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soft
adjective
uk
/sɒft/us
/sɑːft/
not hard ...
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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 ofsoftandclayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Let us not forget that the future liessoftclayto our hands, here and now.
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If you had to hitch it up again, with a straight borehole andsoftclay, you could put down a grab and get the canisters out.
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Retrieved from the bottom of the river and shaped by the women, the stillsoftclayhardened in contact with the elements.
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More likely, the volcano weathered away; hot volcanic gases and steam turned hard rock intosoftclaythat were easily eroded by glacial action.
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At this point, the toilet parts without their molds look like and are about as strong assoftclay.
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This is asoftclay-like material occurring naturally as an impure hydrous aluminium silicate.
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Existing ground for the stadium is in the form of rice withsoftclaymaterial generally thickness of 30 meters.
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The lake's floor has a verysoftclaybottom.
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Ultramarine poor in silica is obtained by fusing a mixture ofsoftclay, sodium sulfate, charcoal, sodium carbonate and sulfur.
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Conventionalsoftclaybuilding techniques can be used with soft paper clay.
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This final version was built up by using layers of compacted clay separated by thin layers of sand andsoftclay.
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Beyond this point, construction proved extremely difficult and slow due to thesoftclayof the terrain.
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However, there was only one set of footsteps on thesoftclaysurface, those of the victim.
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Trapped at the bottom of a ten-foot-deep pit, he begins to dig hand- and foot-holds into thesoftclaywalls.
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Its bed issoftclay.
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The western part of the city is located on the edge of an old lakebed, whereas,softclaydeposits filling the former lakebed underline the eastern part.
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With the help of cutters, where each flower has its own cutter set, the parts are cut from the stillsoftclayand then formed with specially designed tools.
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The owner of the document took a lump ofsoftclay; he affixed the clay to the string binding the document and then stamped it with his seal.
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