fuller's earth's Usage Examples:

Modern uses of fuller"s earth include as absorbents for oil, grease, and animal waste (cat litter) and as a carrier for pesticides.

The hills have an elevation just 100 feet and a type of fuller"s earth, was dug from mines in the hills.

The calcareous soils have developed on Lower Lias clays, fuller"s earth and oolitic limestone strata of Jurassic age.

It is one of the types of fuller"s earth.

derived from deposits of volcanic ash of Cretaceous age and younger (glacial clays do not form fuller"s earth).

In past centuries, fullers kneaded fuller"s earth and water into woollen cloth to absorb.

production no longer used fuller"s earth.

A railway siding at Midford railway station was built specifically to load fuller"s earth.

From the 1880s until 1980 mines extracting fuller"s earth were to be found in Combe Hay.

The river basin is noted for deposits of manganese and fuller"s earth.

It is the main active ingredient of fuller"s earth, probably one of the earliest industrial cleaning agents.

Synonyms:

dirt, soil,

Antonyms:

cleanness, improved, clean,