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The Use of Clay Particle Morphology Studies to Characterize Industrial Clay Deposits: Examples from Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

P. De Souza Santos
P. De Souza Santos*
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic School, USP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Abstract

The use of transmission electron microscopy in association with other methods is described for the characterization of Brazilian industrial clays, especially kaolinitic-halloysitic clays. Examples are presented from: (a) tubular 7 Å-halloysites and the characterization of mixtures with ordered and disordered kaolinites in residual china clays; (b) tubular kaolinitic clay from Piedade, São Paulo; (c) platey 10 Å-halloysite from Poģos de Caldas, Minas Gerais; (d) rolled forms similar to 10 Å-tubular halloysite formed by repeated K Ac intercalation in well ordered kaolinite; (e) use of particle shape and size of kaolinite crystals in the São Simão, São Paulo ball clays as orientation for good sanitaryware ball clays; (f) characterization of gibbsite crystals in high alumina gibbsite/kaolinite clays; (g) antigorite as a clay mineral; (h) electron optical studies of thermal phase transformations involving tubular kaolinite, halloysites, antigorite, chrysotile, talc and pyrophyllite mono crystals.

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Research Article
Information
Clay Minerals , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 539 - 553
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1993

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