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Bentonite is a clay mineral mainly composed of montmorillonite, which has strong water absorption and swelling properties, adsorption capacity, and cation exchange capacity, and is widely used in drilling fluids, soil improvement, sewage treatment, and chemical adsorbents.

(1) Petroleum and geological exploration: Its most important use is to prepare drilling fluids (mud), which can cool and lubricate drill bits, carry cuttings, stabilize wellbores, and prevent well collapse.

(2) Environmental protection field: It serves as an adsorbent for sewage treatment, adsorbing heavy metal ions, organic pollutants, and pigments in water; it can also be used as an anti-seepage liner in landfills, using its low permeability after swelling to block the leakage of harmful substances.

(3) Agricultural field: It is used as a soil amendment to improve the water and fertilizer retention capacity of heavy clay or sandy soil; it can also be used as a feed additive to adsorb mycotoxins in feed and regulate the intestinal environment of livestock and poultry.

(4) Chemical and material field: It acts as a catalyst carrier to support catalytically active components; in coatings and inks, it is used as a thickener or suspending agent to improve product stability; it is also used to produce daily products such as bentonite waterproof blankets and cat litter.

(5) Metallurgy and foundry field: It is used as a binder in iron ore pellets to improve pellet strength for subsequent smelting; in the foundry industry, it is used for sand bonding to enhance the plasticity and collapsibility of sand molds.

(1) Water absorption, swelling and anti-seepage function: It can quickly absorb several times its own weight in water and swell when in contact with water, forming a low-permeability gel-like substance that can block liquid leakage, making it suitable for scenarios such as anti-seepage liners and waterproofing projects.

(2) Adsorption function: Relying on its large specific surface area and pore structure, it can physically or chemically adsorb heavy metal ions, organic pollutants, pigments in water, and mycotoxins in feed, and is used in sewage treatment, toxin removal, etc.

(3) Cation exchange function: The exchangeable cations (such as calcium and sodium) between layers can exchange with external ions, which can adjust the soil ion balance, improve soil structure, or be used for water softening and selective adsorption of heavy metal ions.

(4) Cohesion and suspension stability function: It has good cohesiveness, which can bond loose particles (such as iron ore powder and molding sand) into shape and improve strength; at the same time, it can make solid particles in liquids suspend evenly to prevent sedimentation, and is suitable for drilling fluids, coating thickening, etc.