Talk:Fuller's earth

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Fuller's Earth is used in the illegal laundering process of removing dying agents from agricultural or marine diesel fuels, more commonly known as “red diesel”.

How about a news or court ref to that effect?

Cleaning wool

Is there any source for the statement about fullers cleaning clothing? I've never seen it applied to anything other than the processing of raw fibers or unfinished cloth. The EB reference linked to in the article explicitly says that fulling was the cleaning of raw wool. Not clothing, not woven cloth, unspun wool. Chelt 18:41, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed this and changed it - see fulling. I understand that olive (or other) oil or butter was sometimes added to wool to aid spinning. This makes it unlikely that a natural grease would be removed. However, presumably, it would be removed from knitting wool. Peterkingiron 12:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See the recently added ref from the Rabin Company drugstore product, which was labeled "for cleaning hats and fabrics". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.73.179.150 (talk) 17:01, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Composition

I have not altered what is said about composition, but sources I have looked at for fulling emphasise Aluminium silicate. Help please. Peterkingiron 12:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds, and in particular the British modelmaking teams who worked with Derek Meddings used fullers earth to 'age up' their models in order to make them more used, available in Simon Archers' book FAB Facts, (Long since out of print after the sudden passing of Archer). Wondered if it was worthy to note that it was a staple of film SFX modelmaking.

High profile article

Since the BP oil spill, this article has become highly accessed. i have tagged it as needing expert attention, not because i think its deficient, but that it deserves to be expanded as much as possible, particularly in regards to whether the mineral is or is not relevant to the oil spill.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 19:08, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Map vs. Article Conflict

The output/production map shows the main US site to be in the northeast, but the article states production in the US is from the southeastern states. Either the map or the article is wrong. --MartinezMD (talk) 02:49, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]