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Layer Charge and Interlamellar Expansion in a Muscovite

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Clays and Clay Minerals

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Treatment of a muscovite (Delamica) with molten lithium nitrate produced a lowering of the layer charge on the mica. By gradual reduction of the density of surface charge the dependence of interlamellar expansion on the attainment of a critical value of about 6.7 × 104 e.s.u./cm2 was demonstrated in a straightforward manner.

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    Joe L. White

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Journal Paper no. 994, Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, Lafayette, Indiana.

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White, J.L. Layer Charge and Interlamellar Expansion in a Muscovite. Clays Clay Miner. 5, 289–294 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1346/CCMN.1956.0050124

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