Bone china
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Bone china is a type of vitreous, translucent pottery, the raw materials for which include bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin. It has been defined as "ware with a translucent body" containing a
Staffordshire bone china covered chocolate cabinet cup, with enamels and gilding, c. 1815–20, Victoria and Albert Museum.
Plate from Ronald Reagan's state service for the White House, by Lenox
Kaolinite
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Kaolinite is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition Al2Si2O54. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one "tetrahedral" sheet of silicate tetrahedra linked to one "octahedral" sheet of aluminat
Bone china
…Bone china is a type of vitreous, translucent pottery, the raw materials for which include bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin. It has been defined as "ware with a translucent body" containing a minimum of 30% of phosphate derived from calcined animal bone or calcium phosphate…
Kaolinite from Twiggs County in Georgia in USA
Kaolinite structure, showing the interlayer hydrogen bonds
Kaolin mine in Czech Republic
A kaolin processing plant