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Science 20 December 1968:
Vol. 162. no. 3860, pp. 1390 - 1391
DOI: 10.1126/science.162.3860.1390
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Kaolmite Layer Structure: Relaxation by Dehydroxylation

G. W. Brindley 1 and D. L. Gibbon 1

1 Department of Geochemistry and Mineralogy, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802

Single-crystal electron-diffraction data reveal features of metakaolin. The basal plane parameters increase 2.2 percent in formation of metakaolin produced by heating kaolinite in air at 700°C for 12 hours. This increase results from removal of the distortion of sheet structure (relaxation).

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