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

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

Spraying the barriers with a nontoxic crop protectant, available online under the trade name Surround and derived from kaolin clay, will prevent the caterpillars from entering the apples.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2017

At some point after 1917, when the collector John Quinn bought the work from the dealer Robert Coady, the kaolin was removed.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2012

In this way the rotten granite or china stone, used in pottery, originates; and over considerable areas kaolin replaces the felspar and forms valuable sources of china clay.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various