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Example sentences for: clay

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The Treaty of Kadesh, recorded on clay tablets on display in the Museum of the Ancient Orient in Istanbul (see page 39), is the oldest known example of an international treaty.
And partly you rely on expert judgments: If a prestigious journal has agreed to publish the clay theory, it's probably wrong.
The lower level of the Guggenheim SoHo displays the tinkering side of Rauschenberg's nature, the works he made in collaboration with engineers--the star item there is unquestionably Mud Muse (1968-71), a vat of bentonite (an artificial clay) that bubbles and gurgles and spits, like a pool of quicksand in a Tarzan movie, triggered by a sound-activated compressed-air system.
Vestiges of dwellings survive — cabins on stilts in the frequently flooded Po valley, larger clay houses on the western marshlands of Tuscany, and Sardinia’s still visible domed dry-stone nuraghi.
University of Wisconsin soil science professor Joel Pedersen has discovered that abnormally folded prions stick to the surface of some soil types, such as clay, resisting environmental and chemical damage.