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THE compaction behaviour of clay soils seems to be largely controlled by the nature of the clay particles, the structures they form and the water and electrolyte content of the system. The structures were initially inferred from the colloid chemical properties of the clay particles1, and the electron microscope was applied to the problem in the late nineteen-fifties2 and has subsequently been widely used. At first a transmission optical system and a replica specimen were used but recently the scanning electron microscope has been successfully applied (N. K. Tovey, paper presented at Conference on Scanning Electron Microscopy, Cambridge, 1968).
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SMALLEY, I., CABRERA, J. Particle Association in Compacted Kaolinite. Nature 222, 80–81 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222080a0
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