Fullers Earth

Name:
Fullers Earth
Detailed information:
A porous colloidal aluminum silicate (clay) that has high natural adsorptive power. Gray to yellow color, noncombustible.

Occurrence:

Florida, England, Canada.

Use:

Decolorizing of oils and other liquids, oil-well drilling muds, insecticide carrier, floor-sweeping compounds, cosmetics, rubber filler, carrier for catalysts, filtering medium.

See Bentonite; diatomite.