kaolin

See also: Kaolin and kaolín

English

Alternative forms

• kaoline

Etymology

From French kaolin, François Xavier d'Entrecolles's irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 高嶺土 / 高岭土 (gāolǐngtǔ, “Gaoling earth”), from 高嶺 / 高岭 (Gāolǐng, “High Ridge”), a village in Fuliang County, Jingdezhen Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, that became Jingdezhen's primary source of this kind of clay during the early to mid-Qing dynasty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.ə.lɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

kaolin (countable and uncountable, plural kaolins)

1. A fine clay, rich in kaolinite, used in ceramics, paper-making, etc.
   • 1757, The Handmaid to the Arts, volume 2:

     The composition of the Eastern or proper China ware, according to accounts that have great marks of authenticity, is from two earths; one of which is, as was before mentioned, vitrescent, and is called Petunse; the other a refractory or apyrous earth; and called Kaolin.

   • 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 86:

     Grind with strong arm, the circling chertz betwixt, / Your pure Ka-o-lins and Pe-tun-tses mixt […] .

Synonyms

• china clay, E559, paper clay, lithomarge, lithomarga, kaoline, kaolinite

Derived terms

• kaolin-cephalin clotting time
• kaolin clotting time
• kaolinic
• kaolinite
• kaolinization
• kaolinize
• kaolinosis
• metakaolin

Translations

clay

• Bulgarian: каолин m (kaolin)
• Catalan: caolí m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 瓷土 (ci⁴ tou²)

  Hokkien: 瓷仔土 (hûi-á-thô͘), 磁仔土 (hûi-á-thô͘), 碗土 (óaⁿ-thô͘), 白仁土 (pe̍h-jîn-thô͘), 白土 (pe̍h-thô͘)

  Mandarin: 高嶺土 / 高岭土 (zh) (gāolǐngtǔ), 瓷土 (zh) (cítǔ), 陶土 (zh) (táotǔ)

• Czech: kaolín m, kaolin (cs) m
• Danish: kaolin c or n, porcelænsjord c
• Finnish: kaoliini (fi)
• French: kaolin (fr) m
• Georgian: კაოლინი (ḳaolini), თიხათეთრი (tixatetri)
• German: Kaolin (de) n or m
• Greek: καολίνης (el) (kaolínis)
• Hungarian: kaolin (hu)
• Italian: caolino (it) m
• Khmer: ដីឥដ្ឋស (dəy ǝt sɑɑ)
• Kyrgyz: каолин (ky) (kaolin)
• Macedonian: каоли́н m (kaolín)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kaolin m, porselensjord m or f

  Nynorsk: kaolin m, porselensjord f

• Polish: kaolin (pl) m
• Portuguese: caulinita (pt) f
• Romanian: caolin (ro) n
• Russian: каоли́н (ru) m (kaolín), каолини́т (ru) m (kaolinít)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: као̀лӣн m

  Roman: kaòlīn (sh) m

• Spanish: caolín (es) m
• Tagalog: kawlin
• Turkish: kaolin (tr)
• Vietnamese: caolin, cao lanh (vi)

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1] (etymology)
• Needham, Joseph & al. (2004), Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. V: Chemistry..., Pt. 12: Ceramic Technology, p. 220.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaolɪn]
• IPA^(key): [ˈkaoliːn]

Noun

kaolin m inan

1. Alternative form of kaolín

Declension

Declension of kaolin (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	kaolin	kaoliny
genitive	kaolinu	kaolinů
dative	kaolinu	kaolinům
accusative	kaolin	kaoliny
vocative	kaoline	kaoliny
locative	kaolinu	kaolinech
instrumental	kaolinem	kaoliny

French

Etymology

From the Chinese words 高嶺／高岭 (Gāolǐng, “high hill”), in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China, the location this clay was first found.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ɔ.lɛ̃/

Noun

kaolin m (plural kaolins)

1. kaolin

Further reading

• “kaolin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French kaolin, from Chinese 高嶺／高岭 (Gāolǐng, “high hill”).

Noun

kaolin m (definite singular kaolinen, uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) kaolin

Synonyms

• porselensjord

References

• “kaolin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “kaolin” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French kaolin, from Chinese 高嶺／高岭 (Gāolǐng, “high hill”).

Noun

kaolin m (definite singular kaolinen, uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) kaolin

Synonyms

• porselensjord

References

• “kaolin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaǒliːn/
• Hyphenation: ka‧o‧lin

Noun

kaòlīn m (Cyrillic spelling као̀лӣн)

1. kaolin

Declension

Declension of kaolin

	singular
nominative	kaòlīn
genitive	kaolína
dative	kaolinu
accusative	kaolin
vocative	kaoline
locative	kaolinu
instrumental	kaolinom