Explain the zeolite process.

 

What Are Zeolites?

Zeolites are microporous, three-dimensional crystalline solids of aluminium silicate. 

Zeolites have small openings of fixed size in them, which allow small molecules to pass through them easily. 

But larger molecules cannot pass through them; that is why they are sometimes called molecular sieves.

The term “zeolite” was first used in the year 1756 by Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, a Swedish mineralogist.