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MONTMORILLONITE is known to be capable of forming organic complexes of two kinds, one due to a cation-exchange reaction1 and the other to the interlamellar adsorption of complete molecules2,3. Halloysite has also been reported as giving complexes of the latter type2, and recently also vermiculite4,5. Using a typical vermiculite, complexes of both types have been obtained in this laboratory, and are being studied by means of X-ray diffraction.
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WALKER, G. Vermiculite-Organic Complexes. Nature 166, 695–696 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166695a0
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