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The rare-earth bentonites were prepared from Ca-bentonite by suspending Ca-bentonite in rare-earth (Ce, La, Y) perchlorate solution. 57Fe Mössbauer spectra of rare earth montmorillonites before heat treatments showed a doublet envelop at room temperature, reflecting dominantly Fe3+ assigned to (cis) octahedral site in the montmorillonite. At the same time, the 80 K spectra of these rare-earth exchanged montmorillonites revealed an additional magnetically split component, too, associated with iron atoms intercalated in the interlayer space. In the case of heat treated samples (250 °C, 360 °C and 500 °C for 4 h), a new doublet component associated with Fe3+ at trans octahedral site, appeared in both the 295 K and 80 K Mössbauer spectra. Powder X-ray diffractometry (XRD) measurements of the heat treated rare earth montmorillonites revealed that a gradual mineral phase transformation of montmorillonite to muscovite occurred upon the applied heat treatments, being consistent with the completing electron magnetic resonance (EMR) and Mössbauer spectroscopy (MS) results.
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Kuzmann, E., Kovács, E.M., Homonnay, Z. et al. Fe microenvironments in heat treated rare-earth exchanged montmorillonites. Hyperfine Interact 240, 87 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-019-1622-7
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