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Qué (quién) es clay - definición

SOFT ROCK BASED COMPOUND OFTEN USED FOR SCULPTURE AND TOOLS
Clays; Argil; Argoile
  • Clay bath near [[lake Ahémé]] in [[Benin]].
  • [[Quaternary]] clay in [[Estonia]]
  • Electron micrograph of smectite clay – magnification 23,500×
  • [[Bottle stopper]] made of fired clay, 14th century
  • The Gay Head Cliffs in [[Martha's Vineyard]] consist almost entirely of clay.
  • Clay building in southern Estonia

clay         
n.
1) to model, shape, work clay
2) to bake; temper clay
3) modeling; potter's clay
clay         
¦ noun
1. a stiff, sticky fine-grained impermeable earth that can be moulded when wet and baked to make bricks and pottery.
2. literary the substance of the human body: this lifeless clay.
Derivatives
clayey adjective
clayish adjective
Origin
OE clg, of W. Gmc origin; related to cleave2 and climb.
clay         
(clays)
1.
Clay is a kind of earth that is soft when it is wet and hard when it is dry. Clay is shaped and baked to make things such as pots and bricks.
...the heavy clay soils of Cambridgeshire...
As the wheel turned, the potter shaped and squeezed the lump of clay into a graceful shape.
...a little clay pot.
N-MASS: oft N n
2.
In tennis, matches played on clay are played on courts whose surface is covered with finely crushed stones or brick.
He was a clay-court specialist who won Wimbledon five times.
N-UNCOUNT: oft on N, N n

Wikipedia

Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).

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. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide.

Clay is the oldest known ceramic material. Prehistoric humans discovered the useful properties of clay and used it for making pottery. Some of the earliest pottery shards have been dated to around 14,000 BC, and clay tablets were the first known writing medium. Clay is used in many modern industrial processes, such as paper making, cement production, and chemical filtering. Between one-half and two-thirds of the world's population live or work in buildings made with clay, often baked into brick, as an essential part of its load-bearing structure.

Clay is a very common substance. Shale, formed largely from clay, is the most common sedimentary rock. Although many naturally occurring deposits include both silts and clay, clays are distinguished from other fine-grained soils by differences in size and mineralogy. Silts, which are fine-grained soils that do not include clay minerals, tend to have larger particle sizes than clays. Mixtures of sand, silt and less than 40% clay are called loam. Soils high in swelling clays (expansive clay), which are clay minerals that readily expand in volume when they absorb water, are a major challenge in civil engineering.

Ejemplos de uso de clay
1. "All I need is my clay." The clay is dug from nearby sacred sites.
2. Egyptians had been making shapes out of clay and then started to glaze clay beads.
3. Clay Court crown three times, compiling a record of 25–2 on the Houston clay.
4. Joy for Clay and Davenport in the pool Staff and agencies Friday March 17, 2006 Clay celebrates his gold medal.
5. On clay, the ball "slides along the court and pushes up the clay like a bulldozer" says Professor Cross.