kaolin
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Collins, over at Washington State University, has been experimenting with spraying fine-powdered kaolin or bentonite, which are clays, mixed with water onto wine grapes so it absorbs materials that are in smoke.
From Washington Times • Sep. 28, 2023
When mixed with water and sprayed, the kaolin clay product creates a white particle film on foliage and fruit that confuses the insects.
From Seattle Times • May 27, 2020
Tourniquets are now standard issue in the U.S. military, along with hemostatic dressings—sterile gauze infused with kaolin, a clay that promotes swift blood clotting.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2019
When this recipe started to affect her asthma, she developed her own variation using white kaolin clay.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2018
Porcelain, which is composed, in England, of sand, calcined bones, china-clay, and potash; and, at Dresden, of kaolin, felspar, and broken biscuit-porcelain; 2.
From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by Fyfe, J. Hamilton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.