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Bentonite clay
Bentonite is a clay material that is quite abundant on earth. It was and is still formed in nature by weathering of Volcanic ashes and subsequent sedimentation. Bentonite properties are determined mainly by the amount and type of smectitetype layer silies, for example montmorillonite. These minerals consist of stacks of plateletlike ...