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Thixotropy and intracrystalline swelling*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
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The phenomenon of thixotropy has often been explained by postulating the formation of a lattice structure from the solid particles of the gel. Such a structure is assumed to arise on standing, and to be destroyed on shaking.
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1953
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This is a brief summary. For full details of this work, consult the papers by Fahn, Weiss and Hofmann, in the list of references
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