a clay mineral often used as an additive to drilling mud. It is a hydrous aluminum silicate capable of reacting with such substances of magnesium and calcium. See bentonite.
Soft mineral commonly found in bentonite; becomes mud like when wet without expanding.
Commonly known as absorbent bentonite, red clay is the main ingredient of Fullers Earth and Bentonite Clay. It is a deep-cleansing clay that is used mainly for its absorptive properties to draw out toxins and excess oil from the skin.
an aluminum silicate (smectite) with a 2:1 layer structure composed of two silica tetrahedral sheets and a shared aluminum and magnesium octahedral sheet. Montmorillonite has a permanent negative charge that attracts interlayer cations that exist in various degrees of hydration thus causing expansion and collapse of the structure (i.e., shrink-swell).
red clay mineral-derived Montmorillonite is in our Red Clay Shaving Cream. Used in cosmetics for thousands of years, it is deeply absorptive and cleansing. It absorbs the skin’s oils and toxins, while its high mineral content improves the skin’s circulation and general health.
Montmorillonite - An aluminous clay mineral derived from feldspars or other aluminum-bearing minerals.
a clay mineral used as a catalyst in the formation of RNA oligomers.
Clays found in lakes used as nutrition to replace missing trace
Another name for bentonite.
a hydrous alluminosilicate clay mineral with 2:1 expanding crystal structure - - that is, with two silicon tetrahedral sheets enclosing an aluminum octahedral sheet. Considerable expansion may be caused by water.
A very plastic clay, more siliceous than kaolinite; the principal constituent of bentonite. See Bentonite.
Montmorillonite is a very soft phyllosilicate mineral that typically forms in microscopic crystals, forming a clay. It is named after Montmorillon in France. Montmorillonite, a member of the smectite family, is a 2:1 clay, meaning that it has 2 tetrahedral sheets sandwiching a central octahedral sheet.