Collocations withclay
These are words often used in combination withclay.
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baked clay
The fire destroyed the buildings, but at the same time transformed them into baked clay and thereby preserved them as foundations for new buildings.
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bentonite clay
The materials under consideration, which may be used singly or in combination, include cement mixes, crushed rock, bentonite clay, polymers, pulverised fly ash, asphalt and salt.
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clay animation
Stop motion animation using plasticine is called clay animation or clay-mation.
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clay figure
For the former he made clay models for study and a clay figure.
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clay figurines
Many of these artifacts are clay figurines or statues.
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clay jar
The baling is a decorative clay jar treasured as heirloom.
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clay loam
The soil texture is silty clay loam with 29, 47, and 24% sand, silt and clay respectively, and illite is the dominant clay mineral.
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clay model
After settling the final form in a clay model, it was enlarged to a fullscale set of plaster fragments in his workshop.
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clay oven
This is especially the case with barbecued food that might be cooked in a clay oven of over an open fire.
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clay pipe
These objects + a decorated plate, for example, or a moulded clay pipe + are simultaneously functional and symbolic.
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clay pit
The union argument is that if a quarry worker gets it, why should not the man working in a clay pit get it?
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clay pot
The clay head/bowl is known as a clay pot.
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clay sculpture
A papier-mch mannequin is prepared from the clay sculpture and the animals tanned skin is sewn onto the mannequin.
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clay slip
Then, the contours were redrawn with a brush, using a glossy clay slip.
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clay tablet
A large mudbrick building was excavated in which a large collection of proto-cuneiform clay tablets was found.
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clay target
Naturally, the simplest method of throwing a clay target is by hand, either into the air or along the ground.
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clay tile
Twenty-one clay tile and brick works are being derequisitioned and reopened.
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clay vessel
She gave the adulterer to drink choice wine in valuable goblets; therefore, let her drink bitter water in a worthless clay vessel.
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fired clay
The presence of molds, wasters, and small pieces of fired clay in the collections indicates that spindle whorls were produced in this workshop.
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heavy clay
Aerated subsurface irrigation water gives growth and yield benefits to zucchini, vegetable soybean and cotton in flooded and heavy clay soils.
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kaolin clay
The whiteness of the ivory tusk is like "orhue", a pure, white, kaolin clay considered to be the essence of harmony and spirituality.
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layer of clay
The same low survival rate was obtained behind a thin layer of clay acting as an optical filter.
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lump of clay
Hughes gives the example of a lump of clay.
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polymer clay
The show is devoted to demonstrating and teaching a wide variety of crafts from very basic cut and glue projects to intricate polymer clay creations.
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red clay
They want to take their feet out of that universal red clay and move into higher spheres of civilisation.
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silty clay
The soil texture is silty clay loam with 29, 47, and 24% sand, silt and clay respectively, and illite is the dominant clay mineral.
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soft clay
Let us not forget that the future lies soft clay to our hands, here and now.
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unfired clay
Three symbolic graves contained masks of unfired clay.
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wet clay
We challenged a little fellow who was carrying wet clay.
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white clay
Girls offer prayers to the images made out of white clay painted with white dots.
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