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The porosity of deferrated montmorillonites: ethanol and methylbromide sorption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

M. S. Stul
M. S. Stul*
Affiliation:
Laboratorium voor Oppervlaktechemie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92, B-3030 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium
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Abstract

Comparative porosity studies based on nitrogen sorption isotherms were carried out on six freeze-dried Na-montmorillonites (Moosburg, Camp Berteau, Marnia, Greek Yellow, Greek White, Wyoming bentonite), untreated and deferrated with dithionite/citrate. Mesopore analysis was carried out using the ‘parallel-plate model’; for supermicropores the ‘MP’ method was used. Most of the surface area was located in the supermicropores (width 7–15 Å). Higher total surface areas of the deferrated clays resulted from a much higher supermicroporous surface area, while the mesopore surface was similar or smaller. The lower the charge density of a subfraction of deferrated Wyoming (Na-)bentonite, the lower the vapour pressure at which the interlamellar sorption of ethanol occurred. The results predict an expansion on contact with the first traces of ethanol at 298 K for a Na-smectite with a charge density ξ = 0·11 e/(Si,Al)4O10 unit. Compared with ethanol, methylbromide showed a weaker interaction with Na-smectite. At p/p0 = 0·4 only 18 % of the interlamellar zones of low-charged Laponite were penetrated; one third of the supermicropores of this smectite were not accessible to CH3Br.

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Clay Minerals , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1985 , pp. 301 - 313
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1985

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