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Montmorillonite is a very soft
phyllosilicate group of
minerals that form when they
precipitate from
water solution as
microscopic crystals,
known as...
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consisting mostly of
montmorillonite (a type of smectite)
which can
either be Na-
montmorillonite or Ca-
montmorillonite. Na-
montmorillonite has a considerably...
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between two
tetrahedral sheets, and
examples are talc, vermiculite, and
montmorillonite. The
layers in 1:1
clays are
uncharged and are
bonded by
hydrogen bonds...
- of
montmorillonite, but can
often contain secondary minerals such as
quartz and calcite. In clay mineralogy,
smectite is
synonym of
montmorillonite (also...
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investigate the use of the
mineral montmorillonite as a
surface for
ribonucleotide polymerization and
other processes.
Montmorillonite is
formed by the ac****ulation...
- warm water. In the
field of geology, it is more
commonly known as
montmorillonite.
Diosmectite is a
contraction of "dioctahedral smectite". Its effectiveness...
- the
quartz based bodies.
Dunting also
occurs in
wares produced from
montmorillonite clay
bodies due to the
volume expansion of
cristobalite during its...
- be
found at
marine environments. A
study in the 1990s
showed that
montmorillonite clay can help
create RNA
chains of as many as 50
nucleotides joined...
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commonly used are
kaolin and the
smectite clays such as bentonite,
montmorillonite, and Fuller's earth. However,
their use is declining, and
modern evidence-based...
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lakes and
marine basins. The main
groups of
clays include kaolinite,
montmorillonite-smectite, and illite. Chlorite, vermiculite, talc, and pyrophyllite...
