Montmorillonite
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title:
Montmorillonite
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Montmorillonite is a very soft phyllosilicate group of minerals that form when they precipitate from water solution as microscopic crystals, known as clay. It is named after Montmorillon in France. Montmorillonite, a member of the smectite group, is a 2:1 clay, meaning that it has two tetrahedral sheets of silica sandwiching a central octahedral sheet of alumina. The particles are plate-shaped with an average diameter around 1 μm and a thickness of 0.96 nm; magnification of about 25,000 times, u
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Phyllosilicate group of minerals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montmorillonite
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2024-02-15T11:06:26Z
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