bleaching clay

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   an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils

   Synonymsbleaching earth

   Broadermud

Questions about bleaching clay

What does bleaching clay mean?

bleaching clay means "an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils".

What is another word for bleaching clay?

Close synonyms include bleaching earth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bleaching clay a common word?

bleaching clay is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.