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Relationships between the mean area, volume and thickness for dispersed particles of kaolinites and micaceous clays and their application to surface area and ion exchange properties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

P.H. Nadeau*
Affiliation:
Department of Mineral Soils, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler Aberdeen AB9 2QJ, Scotland

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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1987

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