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A clay mineral.
| Minerals | 
Attapulgite, Palygorskite
 Attapulgite is a magnesium aluminum silicate clay of very fine particle size. It is also known as Fu  | 
| URLs | 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepiolite
 Sepiolite at Wikipedia  | 
| URLs | 
http://www.minersoc.org/pages/gallery/claypix/sepiolite/sepiolite.html
 Sepiolite micrograph at minersoc.org  | 
| URLs | 
http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/Sepiolite.pdf
 Sepiolite mineralogy  | 
| Typecodes | 
Clay Minerals
 The property of plasticity is evident in a wide array of materials of different mineralogy. In addition, many minerals are considered parent minerals to clays, they weather down to become these clays.  | 
| Materials | 
Sepiolite
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