v. [f. KAOLIN + -IZE.] trans. To convert into kaolin. Hence Kaolinization.
1874. Raymond, Statist. Mines & Mining, 339. The granite, which is uniformly decomposed to a great depth, becoming more or less perfectly kaolinized.
1878. Lawrence, trans. Cotta’s Rocks Class., 207. A sign of commencing decomposition (Kaolinising of the felspar).
1886. J. Prestwich, Geol., I. 57. Some Roman mill-stones of granite … were found to be converted throughout into a kaolinised grit.
1886. Sir J. W. Dawson, Inaug. Addr. Brit. Assoc. [Not] a process of kaolinisation so perfect as to eliminate all alkaline matters.
