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For example, there are persons who are in physical science, in the field of mineralogy, trained in crystallography, who use only X-rays, applying only the powder technique of X-ray diffraction, to clay minerals only, and who have spent the last fifteen years concentrating on the montmorillonites ; ;
The fossilized remains of many of these trees are found embedded in the clay.
Instructions for preparing clay, drying, glazing and firing are not given.
From the equilibrium sorption data which are available, it seems logical to expect that polyphosphate ions would be strongly sorbed on the surface of the dirt ( especially clay soils ) so as to give it a greatly increased negative charge.
Buildings made of sun-dried earth are common in West Asia, North Africa, West Africa, South America, southwestern North America, Spain ( usually in the Mudéjar style ), Eastern Europe and East Anglia, particularly Norfolk, known as ' clay lump.
Adobe structures are constructed with bricks created from sand, clay, and water, with some fibrous or organic material, shaped using frames and dried in the sun.
Modern clay bricks are formed in one of three processes-soft mud, dry press, or extruded.
Their many voids are a greater proportion of the volume than the solid, thin walls of fired clay.
Pencil leads for mechanical pencils are made of graphite ( often mixed with a clay or synthetic binder ).
Various types of colloids are recognised: inorganic colloids ( clay particles, silicates, iron oxy-hydroxides, ...), organic colloids ( humic and fulvic substances ).
Portland cement and similar materials are made by heating limestone ( a source of calcium ) with clay and grinding this product ( called clinker ) with a source of sulfate ( most commonly gypsum ).
Key criteria are the composition of the clay and the temper used in the manufacture of the article under study: temper is a material added to the clay during the initial production stage, and it is used to aid the subsequent drying process.
By estimating both the clay and temper compositions, and locating a region where both are known to occur an assignment of the material source can be made.
It was, in fact, nothing like any material used by the Romans, but was a " Natural cement " made by burning septaria – nodules that are found in certain clay deposits, and that contain both clay minerals and calcium carbonate.
The level of clay components in the limestone ( around 30 – 35 %) is such that large amounts of belite ( the low-early strength, high-late strength mineral in Portland cement ) are formed without the formation of excessive amounts of free lime.
In some circumstances, mainly depending on the origin and the composition of the raw materials used, the high-temperature calcination process of limestone and clay minerals can release in the atmosphere gases and dust rich in volatile heavy metals, a. o, thallium, cadmium and mercury are the most toxic.
Small catapults, referred to as traps, are still widely used to launch clay targets into the air in the sport of clay pigeon shooting.
Pot stills made of various materials ( wood, clay, stainless steel ) are also used by bootleggers in various countries.
The graphics, by Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud and Gregor Punchatz, were modelled in various ways: although much was drawn or painted, several of the monsters were built from sculptures in clay or latex, and some of the weapons are toy guns from Toys " R " Us.
* Clay Shooting – In each round, there are 10 clay pigeons for the player to shoot down.

clay and millions
Tennis is enjoyed by millions of recreational players and is also a hugely popular worldwide spectator sport, especially the four Grand Slam tournaments ( also referred to as the " Majors "): the Australian Open played on hard courts, the French Open played on red clay courts, Wimbledon played on grass courts, and the US Open played also on hard courts.
Between these waste rock walls an impervious core was created by using a hydraulic fill technique which pumped millions of cubic yards of clay material and water into the area between the rock walls.
Later, Broseley and Madeley became notable for their continuation of trade in the field of bricks and tiles, which became a stable to the booming building trade, and millions of Broseley clay pipes were exported across the British Empire.
The pipeworks in Broseley were responsible for producing millions of clay pipes which were shipped worldwide, and are invaluable in dating archaeological sites, as they survive without decay and their maker's stamp reveals their date of origin.

clay and pollen
Paleoethnobotanists also recover and analyze microremains ( such as phytoliths and pollen ), human and animal excrements ( paleofeces, sometimes called coprolites ), or plant impressions in ceramic sherds and clay ( such as in daub ).
The girls are painted with clay and pollen, which they must not wash off until the end of the rituals, which involve dancing and rituals that challenge physical strength.

clay and grains
The characteristic swirls and veins of many colored marble varieties are usually due to various mineral impurities such as clay, silt, sand, iron oxides, or chert which were originally present as grains or layers in the limestone.
As the sandstone becomes more mature grains become more rounded, and there is less clay that makes up the matrix of the rock.
Arenites describe sandstone that have less than 15 % clay matrix in between the framework grains.
Wacke describes sandstones that contain more than 15 % clay matrix in between framework grains.
Graywacke sandstones are a heterogeneous mixture of lithic fragments and angular grains of quartz and feldspar, and / or grains surrounded by a fine-grained clay matrix.
Shales are typically composed of variable amounts of clay minerals and quartz grains and the typical color is gray.
:: When sand-sized particles are deposited, the space between the sand grains either remains open or is filled with mud ( silt and / or clay sized particle ).
The minute structures, however, disappear, often completely, if the thermal alteration is very profound ; thus small grains of quartz in a shale are lost or blend with the surrounding particles of clay, and the fine ground-mass of lavas is entirely reconstructed.
Wooden movable type was also first developed around 1040 AD by Bi Sheng ( 毕昇 ) ( 990 – 1051 ), as described by the Chinese scholar Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ), but was abandoned in favour of clay movable types due to the presence of wood grains and the unevenness of the wooden type after being soaked in ink.
Within the storerooms were large clay containers ( pithoi ) that held oil, grains, dried fish, beans, and olives.
In actuality, silt is chemically distinct from clay, and unlike clay, grains of silt are approximately the same size in all dimensions ; furthermore, their size ranges overlap.
Their evidence included greenish-brown clay with surplus iridium containing shocked quartz grains and small weathered glass beads that looked to be tektites.
Good sand sculpture sand is somewhat dirty, having silt and clay that helps lock the irregular shaped sand grains together.
Beach sand consisting of only silica and shell grains does not mold well compared to grains coated with bentonite clay.
" Flocs then have a higher combined mass which leads to quicker deposition through a higher fall velocity, and deposition in a more shoreward direction than they would have as the individual fine grains of clay or silt.
The glass is primarily composed of arkosic sand composed of quartz grains and feldspar ( both microcline and smaller amount of plagioclase with small amount of calcite, hornblende and augite in a matrix of sandy clay ) that was melted by the atomic blast.
These clay slabs, written in Akkadian, the daily language of Babylonia, were inscribed in cuneiform and tell of diets based in grains ( barley, millet, wheat ) vegetables and fruits such as dates, figs, apples, pomegranates, and grapes.
The sand grains are found coated with a thin film of clay.
The matrix of sedimentary rocks is finer grained sedimentary material, such as clay or silt, in which larger grains or clasts are embedded.
These grains are called glauconies and consist of a mixture of mixed-layer clay minerals, such as smectite and glauconite mica.
Varves form only in fresh or brackish water, because the high levels of salt in normal sea water coagulates the clay into coarse grains.

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