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sam1ellie | 07:19 Mon 08th Nov 2004 | Home & Garden
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Absorbent clay like rock used for cat litter?

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It's fullers' earth.

 

Also used as drilling mud in oil wells etc.

 

(Note that it is named after the occupation of fulling -- treating cloth to soften it -- not a chap called Fuller, so it doesn't get a capital initial.)

12:31 Mon 08th Nov 2004
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New Forester is essentially correct.  However Fuller's Earth and drilling muds are different in that drilling mud is made from a naturally occurring mineral called bentonite.  Bentonite is mined in the western US and consists primarily of montmorrilonite.  This aids in the "clumping" of the litter you see advertised...
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