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Smectites in the montmorillonite-beidellite series

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

H. Yamada
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials, Namiki 1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 Japan
H. Nakazawa
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials, Namiki 1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 Japan
K. Yoshioka
Affiliation:
Nippon Paint Co. Ltd., Minamishinagawa 4-1-15, Shinagawa, Tokyo, 140 Japan
T. Fujita
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials, Namiki 1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 Japan

Abstract

Smectites in the montmorillonite-beidellite pseudo-binary system were synthesized from glass at the hydrothermal conditions 100 MPa and 250–500°C. Products were analysed by X-ray powder diffraction for randomly oriented and glycolated samples, and also according to the Greene-Kelly test. A new mixed-layer mineral consisting of regularly interstratified montmorillonite-beidellite was found below 400°C for M50B50 composition, where M and B denote the compositions of ideal Na-montmorillonite and Na-beidellite, respectively. Montmorillonite was obtained as a single phase below 375°C in the composition range from M100B0 to M78B22. Above 375°C, montmorillonite decomposed into an assemblage of beidellite, saponite and a silica mineral. Beidellite as a single phase was synthesized below 400°C for M0B100 composition. Above 450°C, Na-rectorite (regularly interstratified paragonite-beidellite), Mg-free dioctahedral smectite and/or Mg-rich trioctahedral smectite appeared together with silica minerals. These smectites showed the same swelling behaviour as that of montmorillonite. Phase relations in the montmorillonite-beidellite pseudo-binary system indicate no complete solid-solution series.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1991

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