Definitions for petuntse

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petuntse pe·tun·tse

Spelling: [pi-too n-tse; Chinese baw- Petuntse is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in petuntse (eenpsttu).

Definitions for petuntse

noun

1. a type of feldspar, used in certain porcelains.

Origin of petuntse

1720-30; Chinese (Wade-Giles) pai²tun¹tzŭ⁰, (pinyin) bái dùnzi white mound

Examples for petuntse

The manufacture of hard porcelain was begun at Svres in 1769, the quarries of St. Yrieix supplying both the kaolin and petuntse.

It is not, therefore, composed simply of kaolin and petuntse.

Chemically, petuntse resembles the pegmatite of Limoges; mineralogically, it is to be classed with petrosilicious felspar.

The kaolin and petuntse used in making paste for Chinese porcelain are chemically identical with the materials used in Europe.

Kaolin and petuntse are of little importance in the composition of soft porcelain.

The Chinese glaze is also the more fusible, on account of the addition of lime to the petuntse, which the French use pure.