| 11. | In addition to its use in pipes, sepiolite is used in oil drilling and for cat litter.
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| 12. | It is said that in this district there are 4000 shafts leading to horizontal galleries for extraction of the sepiolite.
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| 13. | Sepiolite is also found, though less abundantly, in Greece, as at serpentine at Hrubschitz near Kromau in Moravia.
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| 14. | Here, the meerschaum ( sepiolite ) used to make the Somali people's trademark dabqaad incense burner is mined.
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| 15. | Additionally, sepiolite is found to a limited extent at certain localities in France and Spain, and is known in Morocco.
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| 16. | Sepiolite is a hydrous magnesium silicate having the chemical formula Mg 4 Si 6 O 15 ( OH ) 2 ?H 2 O.
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| 17. | Most of the sepiolite of commerce is obtained chiefly from the plain of Eski _ ehir in Turkey, between Istanbul and Ankara.
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| 18. | Meerschaum ( sepiolite ) is used to make the dabqaad, with the district of El Buur serving as a center for quarrying.
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| 19. | The soft, white, earthy mineral from L�ngbanshyttan, in V�rmland, Sweden, known as aphrodite ( ), is closely related to sepiolite.
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| 20. | Eski _ ehir is famous for Sepiolite ( Meerschaum ) mining which has left a distinct signature on the landscape and inspires the fa�ade of the stadium.
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