Dried Pipe Clay

Drying

Drying is a mass transfer process consisting of the removal of water or another solvent by evaporation from a solid, semi-solid or liquid. This process is often used as a final production step before selling or packaging products. To be considered "dried", the final product must be solid, in the form of a continuous sheet, long pieces, particles or powder. A source of heat and an agent to remove the vapor produced by the process are often involved. In bioproducts like food, grains, and pharmaceuticals like vaccines, the solvent to be removed is almost invariably water. Desiccation may be synonymous with drying or considered an extreme form of drying.

Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide.

dried

Adjective

1. Without water or moisture, said of something that has previously been wet or moist; resulting from the process of drying.
2. Usually of foods: cured, preserved by drying.

Verb

1. simple past and past participle of dry

pipe

Noun

1. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

Verb

1. To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
2. To shout loudly and at high pitch.

clay

Noun

1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
2. An earth material with ductile qualities.

Verb

1. To add clay to or to spread clay onto.
2. To purify using clay.