Evaluation of the medicinal use of clay minerals as ...
Jul 01, 2010· Clays and Clay Minerals. First and foremost, it is essential to define what clay is and how it differs from mud, soil, and minerals. In the field of geology clay is a sizebased term for very finegrained minerals with an estimated spherical diameter < µm and approximate density of g/cm 3 as defined by Stokes Law (Jackson, 1979; Moore et al., 1997).