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Uncommon card · Science
Kaolinite, an Uncommon card
Kaolinite is a clay mineral, having the chemical composition Al2Si2O54.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 168
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Ranked #1,559 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Kaolinite quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Kaolinite card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It has a low shrink–swell ______ and a low cation-exchange capacity.
Answer
capacity. It has a low shrink–swell capacity and a low cation-exchange capacity. From the Kaolinite article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Rhetoric. Rhetoric 88 · War elephant 84 · Punched card 81 · Kaolinite 77 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is a layered silicate mineral, with one "tetrahedral" sheet of silicate tetrahedra linked to one "octahedral" sheet of aluminate octahedrons through oxygen atoms on one side, and another such sheet linked through hydrogen bonds on the other side.
- Kaolinite is a soft, earthy, usually white, mineral, produced by the chemical weathering of aluminium silicate minerals like feldspar.
- It has a low shrink–swell capacity and a low cation-exchange capacity.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Kaolinite article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Kaolinite
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Kaolinite in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Urassaya SperbundUncommon · Society · ATK 83 DEF 85
- War elephantUncommon · History · ATK 84 DEF 84
- Heinrich HeineUncommon · Arts · ATK 84 DEF 84
- Punched cardUncommon · Science · ATK 81 DEF 87
- TragedyUncommon · Arts · ATK 80 DEF 88
- Atlantic salmonUncommon · Nature · ATK 81 DEF 87
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Kaolinite (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : James St. John https://www.flickr.com/people/jsjgeology?rb=1, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
