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Aluminium coordination and structural disorder in halloysite and kaolinite by 27Al NMR spectroscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

R.H. Newman ,
C.W. Childs  and
G.J. Churchman
R.H. Newman
Affiliation:
Industrial Research Ltd, PO Box 31-310, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
C.W. Childs*
Affiliation:
Industrial Research Ltd, PO Box 31-310, Lower Hutt, New Zealand Landcare Research, Private Bag 3127, Hamilton, New Zealand
G.J. Churchman
Affiliation:
Industrial Research Ltd, PO Box 31-310, Lower Hutt, New Zealand Division of Soils, CSIRO, Private Bag No. 2, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia
*
†Current address: Chemistry Department, Victoria University, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Abstract

It has been suggested that interlayer water in halloysite is due to the presence of hydrated cations that balance the negative layer charge produced by Al for Si substitution. To find evidence of 4-coordinate Al (Al(IV)), we investigated six halloysites and two kaolinites using ‘high-field’ and ‘medium-field’ solid-state 27Al MAS NMR spectroscopy. We found Al(IV) in both kaolinite and five halloysite samples, but the contents are all <1% and provide no basis for distinguishing between kaolinite and halloysite. Therefore, the presence of interlayer water in halloysite cannot be attributed to Al for Si substitution. There are, however, signals, tentatively assigned to A1(V), present in the kaolinite spectra but not in the halloysite spectra. The shapes of the low-frequency ‘tails’ of Al(VI) signals in medium-field NMR vary from sample to sample. We interpret this variation in terms of a ‘crystallinity index’. Disorder in kaolinite appears to be primarily the result of Al-vacancy displacements in the octahedral sheet. The NMR crystallinity indices correlate with those from IRS and DTA but not with those from XRD.

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Research Article
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Clay Minerals , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 1994 , pp. 305 - 312
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1994

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