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zeolite
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Zeolite
Zeolites
are
microporous
,
aluminosilicate
minerals
commonly used as commercial
adsorbents
and
catalyst
s. The term
zeolite
was originally coined in 1756 by
Swedish
mineralogist
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
, who observed that upon rapidly heating the material
stilbite
, it produced large amounts of steam from water that had been
adsorbed
by the material. Based on this, he called the material
zeolite
, from the
Greek
, meaning "to boil" and , meaning "stone".
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