Bentonite (/ˈbɛntənaɪt/ BEN-tə-nyte) is an absorbent swelling clay consisting mostly of montmorillonite (a type of smectite) which can either be Na-montmorillonite...

The Tioga Bentonites are a series of ash bed layers occurring in three Sedimentary basins in the eastern and midwestern United States. The primary basin...

Bentonite is an absorbent aluminium phyllosilicate generally impure clay consisting mostly of montmorillonite. There are a few types of bentonites and...

the clays most commonly used are kaolin and the smectite clays such as bentonite, montmorillonite, and Fuller's earth. However, their use is declining...

stated that there was no bentonite in the attack anthrax. "No tests ever found or even suggested the presence of bentonite. The claim was just concocted...

with stability. An example material for road embankment building is sand-bentonite mixture often used as a protective to protect underground utility cables...

earth typically consist of palygorskite (also known as attapulgite) or bentonite. Primary modern uses include as absorbents for oil, grease, and animal...

texture, in clay deposits. Soils containing swelling clay minerals (such as bentonite) pose a considerable challenge for civil engineering, because swelling...

Limestone Member are indicative of Cenomanian age. X-bentonite: While the formation has several thin bentonite beds, one unique bed is sufficiently thick, widespread...

rocks and minerals are limestone, clays, sand, gravel, diatomite, kaolin, bentonite, silica, barite, gypsum, and talc. Some examples of applications for industrial...

exploration of iron ore, copper, rock phosphate, limestone, dolomite, gypsum, bentonite, magnesite, diamond, tin, tungsten, graphite, coal etc. It is India's...

The Deicke and Millbrig bentonite layers, specifically the potassium bentonite layer, K-bentonite, were formed from a volcanic eruption during the Taconic...

sodium cation also causes the bentonite added to the drilling fluid to swell, while the high ionic strength induces bentonite flocculation. NaBr has a very...

Bentonite Clay along the valley of the Little Missouri River in Theodore Roosevelt National Park (North Unit)...

Taking its name from the formation, this material is called bentonite. Iron sulfide in the bentonite seams converts to rust when exposed to air resulting in...

are factory manufactured hydraulic barriers consisting of a layer of bentonite or other very low-permeability material supported by geotextiles and/or...

using hydrocarbon oil, Water-based drilling mud most commonly consists of bentonite clay (gel) with additives such as barium sulfate (baryte) to increase...

proceeded, filling the space with a slurry consisting of a mixture of bentonite and water, which plugged holes and kept groundwater out. When the trench...

Ayilo, also known as ayilor, hyile, and ferinkasa, is a Ghanaian term for bentonite clay. It is a baked solid white clay usually taken by pregnant women....

Painted Desert features eroded cliffs of red-hued volcanic rock called bentonite. Dinosaur fossils and over 350 Native American sites are also protected...

300 kg/ha; 1,100 lb/acre) of bentonite resulted in an average yield increase of 73%. Other studies showed that applying bentonite to degraded sandy soils reduced...

[citation needed] This swelling property makes montmorillonite-containing bentonite useful also as an annular seal or plug for water wells and as a protective...

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Subsequently in America, clumping bentonite was developed in 1984 by biochemist Thomas Nelson. Most are made from granulated bentonite clay, which clumps together...

often halloysite (from the proper name), saponite (soapstone),: 187  bentonite or montmorillonite (from the French: Montmorillon, toponym). The last...

(polytype of stichtite) Bauxite (aluminium ore) Beckerite (natural resin) Bentonite (mixture of montmorillonite and other clays) Bixbite (red gem variety...

used directly by plants. Elemental sulfur (ES) is sometimes mixed with bentonite to amend depleted soils for crops with high requirement in organo-sulfur...

This list of mines in Russia is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country organized by primary...

gels with viscoelastic properties. Viscoelastic colloidal gels, such as bentonite and toothpaste, flow like liquids under shear, but maintain their shape...

than concrete, and for industries other than construction. For example, bentonite slurries for monitoring wells are often emplaced via tremie pipe. The...