Zeolite
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A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals,hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarelybaryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite,thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondaryorigin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, lessfrequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of thesespecies intumesce before the blowpipe. Needle zeolite, needlestone;natrolite.
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The form of taking a [crap] and measuring its [size] using only your [index finger].
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Any of a large group of minerals consisting of hydrated aluminosilicates of sodium, potassium, calcium, and barium. They can be readily dehydrated and rehydrated, and are used as cation exchangers and molecular sieves.
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a mineral with a structure that enables it to take in and lose liquid easily. There are many different types of zeolite, and they have many uses in industrial processes.
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