What's the difference between clay and marl?

Clay


Definition:

  • (n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
  • (n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
  • (v. t.) To cover or manure with clay.
  • (v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Radioactive gas was released from the medium solution used in the Viking Labeled Release (LR) experiment when interacted with the clays, at rates and quantities similar to those measured by Viking on Mars.
  • (2) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
  • (3) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
  • (4) The extent catalysis of phosphodiester bond formation varied with the particular clay mineral used.
  • (5) An additional 30 cm of clay covered the tailings on one plot and each plot was subdivided into bare soil and vegetated subplots.
  • (6) The supernatant of soil suspension in water mainly contained isolated bacteria, while ultrathin sections of aggregates frequently revealed groups of bacteria surrounded by a sheath of mucilage with adhering clay minerals on the outside.
  • (7) It was a good, fair deal, and three days after signing, on 29 October 1960, Clay made his debut as a pro and defeated in six one-sided rounds Tunney Hunsaker, a former chief police officer, in Louisville’s packed Freedom Hall.
  • (8) Experimentally, vascular clay model was used to estimate its efficacy.
  • (9) If an indictment were returned, Clay would have to go for trial.
  • (10) This requirement is one that Americans comply with every day to engage in mundane activities like cashing a check, opening a bank account or boarding a plane,” said Reed Clay, a special assistant under Abbott.
  • (11) Carbofuran (Curater 5G) behavior was studied in two drained cornfield soils, clay and loamy-clay, for 2 successive years.
  • (12) The businesses that bring clay and laterite for landfill.
  • (13) Results are reported of epidemiological studies in six groups of miners, who work in U mines, Fe mines and shale clay mines.
  • (14) Adsorption and movement of carbofuran (a systemic nematicide) were studied using two Indian soils (clay loam and silt loam) of alluvial origin.
  • (15) Plotting average molecular weights obtained against c-spacings of the clay platelet aggregates which widened as a result of polypeptide addition and adsorption before the polymerization, does not permit an obvious explanation of these observations.
  • (16) Adult, male rats were gavaged with an aqueous suspension of 14C-toluene in the presence or absence of either an Atsion (sandy soil) or a Keyport soil (clay soil).
  • (17) The orderly village of Agulodiek in Ethiopia's western Gambella region stands in stark contrast to Elay, a settlement 5km west of Gambella town, where collapsed straw huts strewn with cracked clay pots lie among a tangle of bushes.
  • (18) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
  • (19) 1.06am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 3rd And Clay faces Lance Lynn to start off the third, and the Superman-character named pitcher works a decent at-bat, working the count to 2-2 and then fouling off the next two pitches and taking ball three to a full count.
  • (20) The Dallas Morning News reported that the Highland Park school district sent a note aiming to reassure parents that their children could not contract Ebola through contact with the daughter of Clay Jenkins, a judge who is in charge of emergency management for Dallas County and who drove Troh and her family from her apartment to a temporary home in an undisclosed location.

Marl


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.
  • (n.) A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and sand, in very varivble proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. See Greensand.
  • (n.) To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She was then a little known singer-songwriter whose career was about to take off, and in a small London studio Mumford recorded the drum track for Marling's breakthrough album, Alas I Cannot Swim .
  • (2) "He was a great premier in Queensland, he would make an enormous contribution to a federal Labor government," Marles said.
  • (3) Marles refused to state clearly what Labor’s policy would be.
  • (4) It is expressed quietly in the case of singer-songwriters Laura Veirs and Laura Marling, and brashly in pop with Lady Gaga and Rihanna.
  • (5) It is suggested that endogenous prostaglandin (PG) production (marledly reduced during EFA deficiency) may exert a negative feedback effect on collagen metabolism during proliferative inflammation.
  • (6) When questioned on whether Labor supported these changes, Marles said: “As a matter of principle we’ve never supported retrospective legislation … It is obviously something one seeks to avoid.” The reintroduction of TPVs would be viewed by Morrison and the Coalition as a major political victory.
  • (7) Labor’s immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, said the party was “open to any sensible change to the Citizenship Act that improves our current system” and would carefully examine the detail to ensure ether were no unintended consequences.
  • (8) Labor’s immigration spokesman Richard Marles said Abbott’s refusal to deny the practice had left the door wide open to the idea the government was handing wads of taxpayer’s cash to smugglers.
  • (9) 5.45am BST Shadow immigration minister Richard Marles is back, fishing, again, on an asylum boat.
  • (10) The Australian government must give a full and accurate account of what has occurred.” Labor’s immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, said most Australians would be amazed if the government was creating “a situation where there is an encouragement for people smugglers to encounter Australian navy vessels so they can get an Australian taxpayer-funded cheque”.
  • (11) The makeup of that group would depend on the United Nations refugee agency, the shadow immigration minister, Richard Marles, said.
  • (12) But for obvious and good reasons, we don’t talk about operations of that agency.” The shadow immigration minister, Richard Marles, has written to federal auditor general Grant Hehir to ask if public money was used appropriately.
  • (13) That’s what I said on Tuesday afternoon,” he said in response to a question from Labor’s immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, about the time the minister was notified about the incorrect information.
  • (14) The other four panellists on Monday’s program are the Queensland Greens senator Larissa Waters, Labor’s immigration spokesman Richard Marles, Trisha Jha from the Centre for Independent Studies and the Australian’s foreign editor, Greg Sheridan.
  • (15) Since that time, Marles has engaged in an extensive round of consultations in an effort to minimise open conflict at the conference.
  • (16) The Labor trade minister, Richard Marles, played down the decision, saying it was not remarkable for a conservative party to preference a mainstream party like Labor ahead of the Greens.
  • (17) Marles said the security concerns for asylum seekers and hardened criminals such as bikie gang members who have had their visas cancelled is a “different kettle of fish”.
  • (18) They spoke only briefly and he has heard no more.” Marles said if anybody was returned to a position of not being safe “then Australia would have squarely breached our international obligations”.
  • (19) I’m thankful that the Labor party has seen sense.” A spokeswoman for Marles said that the Greens amendment in the June bill was about the legality of offshore processing and “had nothing to do with mandatory reporting or conditions”.
  • (20) The government’s policies are forcing brave Australian men and women to risk their lives on the high seas but they are stubbornly refusing to tell the public anything about it.” The opposition immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, said the public should be “gravely concerned” about the attempts to stop the flow of information about asylum-seeker operations.