The Meerschaum Smoking Experience

(Pipes Magazine) Meerschaum provides a cool and dry smoking experience because of the properties of Sepiolite, known as Meerschaum (sea froth), a non-swelling, lightweight, porous clay. Unlike other clays, the individual particles of Sepiolite have a needle-like morphology. It doesn’t burn, so if the pipe is clean it provides a clarity of the smoking experience not found with other materials. Continued

Image: Currier & Ives, 1880 (Library of Congress).