Applications
A very pure halloysite is mined from a highly altered rhyolite occurrence in New Zealand uses include porcelain and bone china.
Halloysite also has been used as a petroleum cracking catalyst in the past. Exxon has also developed a cracking catalyst based on synthetic halloysite.
Due to its structure, it can be used as filler in either natural or modified forms in nanocomposites.
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