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
Wilkinson, Zandberg and others are experimenting with coating compounds such as a clay named kaolin, which essentially coats grapes to help prevent smoke from penetrating the skin.
From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2021
Packing a wound added pressure that impeded blood flow, and the kaolin in the gauze encouraged 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
In the weathering of granite the quartz suffers little change; the felspar passes into dull cloudy, soft aggregates of kaolin, muscovite and secondary quartz, while chlorite, quartz and calcite replace the biotite, hornblende and augite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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