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Science 31 August 1984:
Vol. 225. no. 4665, pp. 923 - 925
DOI: 10.1126/science.225.4665.923
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Interstratified Clays as Fundamental Particles

P. H. NADEAU 1, M. J. WILSON 1, W. J. MCHARDY 1, and J. M. TAIT 1

1 Department of Mineral Soils, Macaulay Institute for Soil Research, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB9 2QJ, Scotland

Materials representing common interstratified clay minerals are shown to be composed of aggregates of fundamental particles. Transmission electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction demonstrate that the x-ray diffraction characteristics of a wide range of interstratification can be modeled experimentally by utilizing materials containing only three types of particles. The data have been incorporated into a new model that regards interstratified clay minerals as populations of fundamental particles whose x-ray diffraction patterns result from interparticle diffraction.

Submitted on March 6, 1984
Accepted on June 6, 1984


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