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A simple aid to clay mineral identification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

P. S. Keeling*
Affiliation:
British Ceramic Research Association, Stoke-on-Trent
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Abstract

A method is described whereby differentiation between clay minerals may be rapidly effected. The method depends upon the differential moisture adsorption of clay minerals. There seems no reason why reasonably quantitative results may not be obtained. An application to the Etruria Marl is given.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1958

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