11.25 Clay Processing - US EPA

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clay composed primarily of smectite minerals, usually montmorillonite, and is used largely in drilling muds, in foundry sands, and in pelletizing taconite iron ores. Fuller’s earth is defined as a nonplastic clay or claylike material that typically is high in magnesia and has specialized decolorizing and purifying properties.

  Clay, Montmorillonite