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smectite

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smectite [′smek‚tīt]
(mineralogy)
Dioctahedral (montmorillonite) and trioctahedral (saponite) clay minerals, and their chemical varieties characterized by swelling properties and high cation-exchange capacities.


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Arlington Heights, IL) discusses the nanoparticles that his company provides, he describes a nanoclay (a smectite, for those who are in the know about materials that were created some 60 million years ago, volcanic ash that was deposited in such places as the inland sea that once covered what is now Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, and Utah), one that is a platelet, or like a sheet of paper.
Because of the abundance of smectite that would be available on a volcanic planet.
 
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