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ZEOLITE is a mineral that has recently been refined into a filter media for sand filters. It's 3-dimensional honeycomb microscopic structure is perfectly suited for efficient and more sensitive sand filtration. Zeolite may be a bit more expensive than a fine quality silica sand ($24/25lbs) but due to its incredible properties, you need only use HALF as much as regular sand and it will last twice as long! Come in for details! Click here to learn more about zeolite's molecular structure.
Zeolites are the aluminosilicate members of the family of microporous solids known as "molecular sieves". The term molecular sieve refers to a particular property of these materials, i.e. the ability to selectively sort molecules based primarily on a size exclusion process. This is due to a very regular pore structure of molecular dimensions. The maximum size of the molecular or ionic species that can enter the pores of a zeolite is controlled by the diameters of the tunnels. These are conventionally defined by the ring size of the aperture, where, for example, the term "8ring" refers to a closed loop that is built from 8 tetrahedrally coordinated silicon (or aluminum) atoms and 8 oxygen atoms. These rings are not always perfectly flat and symmetrical due to a variety of effects, including strain induced by the bonding between units that are needed to produce the overall structure, or coordination of some of the oxygen atoms of the rings to cations within the structure. Therefore, the pore openings for all rings of one size are not identical.