smectite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of smectite
1805–15; < Greek smēkt ( ós ) smeared + -ite 1
Example Sentences
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Over millions of years, smectite can have a global effect, helping to cool the entire planet.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023
Sorting out the food problem may also take time, but within several months someone might have been able to knock up a polytunnel to grow a couple of undersized cabbages in the smectite clay.
From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2015
These include the clay minerals kaolinite, illite, and smectite, and although they are difficult to study because of their very small size, they are extremely important components of rocks and especially of soils.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
In one place, these clays are of an iron-rich variety called smectite.
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2014
The American Bottom clay, known as smectite clay, is especially prone to swelling: its volume can increase by a factor of eight.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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