Abstract
CLAY minerals having a lamellar structure commonly show a particular type of random stacking, in which only a limited number of definite interlayer spacings exist, but these are distributed with various degrees of randomness. Examples are: mica of 10 A. spacing, with a certain proportion of 14 A. hydrated layers; glycerol-saturated montmorillonite (17.7 A.) in which a certain proportion of layers of lower glycerol content (14 A.) is present; partly dehydrated halloysite1 (mixture of 10.0 A. and 7.2 A. layers).
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MACEWAN, D. Randomly Stacked Layers in Clay Minerals. Nature 171, 616–617 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171616a0
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