noun
definition
Any of several minerals, aluminosilicates of sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium, that have a porous structure; they are used in water softeners and in ion exchange chromatography.
Examples of zeolites in a Sentence
The origins of naturally occurring zeolites are given together with the chemical and physical characteristics.
The course will also discuss aluminosilicate zeolites and other types of microporous solids and relate their properties to their structures.
Quantum mechanical modeling techniques have been used to study many different zeolites and the roles they play in the reactions they catalyze.
Abstract Millions of years of nature and four decades of synthetic effort have resulted in more than sixty known thermally stable aluminosilicate zeolites.
The rarer zeolites tend to crystallize in isolation in small vesicles, often with few or no associated species.
To identify significant structural channels in a number of important zeolites.