Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A porcelainlike clay aluminosilicate mineral, Al2SiO5(OH)4·2H2O, consisting of small, slender tubes and formed by the weathering of other aluminosilicate minerals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A clay-like, earthy mineral with waxy or dull luster, white or slightly colored, and having a conchoidal fracture. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A monoclinic-domatic
mineral containingaluminum ,hydrogen ,oxygen , andsilicon .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Company's halloysite nanotube HNT products involve filling HNTs with active agents for use in the polymer composites, health and beauty, household product, and agrichemical industries.
unknown title 2011
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Zeitoun, President and CEO of Applied Minerals, Inc., stated: This financing further enhances the Company's ability to realize its goal of commercializing the Dragon Mine halloysite property.
Applied Minerals, Inc. Announces $3,050,000 Financing - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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(OTCBB: NNAN) (FWB: N3N) develops and commercializes products and solutions for extended release attributes for consumer goods as well as polymer additives based on naturally occurring nanomaterials from halloysite.
unknown title 2009
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NaturalNano holds and licenses more than 25 patents and its applications, as well as proprietary know-how for extraction, classification, and modification of non-toxic and environmentally friendly halloysite natural tubules (HNT).
unknown title 2009
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In addition to serving the traditional halloysite markets for use in technical ceramics and catalytic applications, the company has targeted niche applications that they feel will benefit from the tubular morphology of their Halloysite.
unknown title 2009
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Applied Minerals Inc, formerly the Atlas Mining Company, is the producer of halloysite clay from their wholly owned Dragon Mine Property in Utah.
unknown title 2009
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Under the agreement, NaturalNano will purchase certain polyketone polymers exclusively from OPM and, using its Pleximer technology, produce polyketone-halloysite compounds which it will sell exclusively to OPM.
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"Companies are paying more attention to our specialized technology of halloysite tubes which are natural occurring, non-toxic, and environmentally friendly and importantly, are not carbon based.
unknown title 2009
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The unique properties of halloysite in NaturalNano's Pleximer product have solved this problem for us. "
Nano Tech Wire 2008
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