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

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

The Chinese and Japanese, with which may be assimilated the German and French, all of them made of kaolin and felspar, sometimes with an addition of quartz.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by Arnoux, L.