Difference between Shale and Clay

What is the difference between Shale and Clay?

Shale as a noun is a shell or husk; a cod or pod. while Clay as a noun is a mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.

Shale

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To take off the shell or coat of.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A shell or husk; a cod or pod. A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

Clay

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.An earth material with ductile qualities.A tennis court surface.(Biblical) The material of the human body.

Example sentence: The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

We hope you now know whether to use Shale or Clay in your sentence.

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