A few drops of water on top of a tiny pile of bentonite powder.

Thursday 19th December 2013

Notice the water just sits there in a little lake. It does not soak in because the insight-live.com/material/106">bentonite gels in contact with the water and that gel acts as a barrier. This water-barrier property of bentonite is a key to its use in many products but can be a problem in ceramics (because it slows down the drying speed of bodies and glazes that contain it).

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