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Controlled Synthesis of Heteropolytypic (Mixed-Layer) Clay Minerals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

J. T. Iiyama
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Rustum Roy
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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Abstract

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The conditions for the formation of various heteropolytypic or mixed-layer phases were determined in a hydrothermal study of synthetic mixtures along the join talc—Na-saponite—Na-phlogopite composition. Heteropolytypes of talc and saponite from compositions between talc and a saponite solid solution and of saponite and a 10 Å sodium mica (Na-phlogopite?) from compositions lying between saponite solid solutions and Na-phlogopite have been prepared reproducibly.

At 1 kb in the temperature range 450-575° C, randomly stacked heteropolytypic phases were formed and persisted. At higher pressures the regular heteropolytypes (regularly interstratified or mixed-layer minerals), generally 1:1 phases, were formed. The genesis of heteropolytypes in nature is discussed on the basis of these results.

Type
Symposium on Bentonites and Texas Uranium Deposits
Copyright
Copyright © Clay Minerals Society 1961

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