1. Ingredient in dusting powders (talcum powder for application over the skin)

2. Pharmaceutic aid

3. Paper sizing

4. Cloth sizing

5. Laundry starching

6. Starting material from which liquid glucose, dextrose, high fructose sweeteners are made

7. Demulcent; soothes the abraded mucous membrane

8. Antidote for iodine poisoning