The cost, too, fell, because slag is free, whereas clay costs money.There is, of course, the problem of customers.

成本也有所降低，因为废料是免费的，只有粘土需要用钱购买。当然，消费者是个问题。

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The hard shell course on soft clay foundation has such characters as stress distribution, back berm, lagging behind of settlement and closed action.

天然双层软土地基上的硬壳层具有应力扩散、反压护道、沉降滞后和封闭作用等特征。

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And the boundary of them has the same lithologic character: the ravinement surface of river course or exposure mudstone of flooding plain and root clay.

二者的界面是相同的，均为河道砂体底部的冲刷侵蚀面或者是暴露过泛滥平原泥岩、根土岩等。

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In the normal course of events, clay dissolves and disappears, and any message on it is erased.

因为在一般的情况下,粘土会分崩离析,所有的信息将灰飞烟灭

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The conventional explanation for this arrangement is that the glass fell to Earth first, then giant waves caused by the impact covered them with sediment, then iridium-containing dust settled out of the atmosphere over the course of a few weeks and formed the clay.

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He was introduced to a well-known traditional healer in Jakarta, who prescribed a course of treatment that included getting a massage, sitting on hot clay bricks wrapped in a towel, and drinking a solution made from papaya leaves and temu lawak (a type of root).

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