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Bentonite
Bentonite
is an
absorbent
aluminium
phyllosilicate
clay
consisting mostly of
montmorillonite
. It was named by Wilbur C. Knight in 1898 after the
Cretaceous
Benton Shale
near
Rock River, Wyoming
.
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