• by clay mineral X-ray diffrsction. Sometimes fine grain sediments are mistakenly described as clays; this is actually a description of the "clay-size...
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    crystallographic structure of clay minerals became better understood in the 1930s with advancements in the x-ray diffraction (XRD) technique indispensable...
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    Halloysite (category Clay minerals group)
    alumino-silicate minerals. It can occur intermixed with dickite, kaolinite, montmorillonite and other clay minerals. X-ray diffraction studies are required...
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    weathered minerals. Clay minerals in clays are most easily identified using X-ray diffraction rather than chemical or physical tests. Varve (or varved clay) is...
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    Illite (category Clay minerals group)
    Illite to Muscovite in Pelitic Rocks: Constraints from X-ray Diffraction". Clays and Clay Minerals. 46 (1): 79–88. Bibcode:1998CCM....46...79G. doi:10.1346/CCMN...
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    without equivocation. In other cases, minerals can only be classified by more complex optical, chemical or X-ray diffraction analysis; these methods, however...
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    Dickite (category Clay minerals group)
    calcium, sodium and potassium. Dickite occurs with other clays and requires x-ray diffraction for its positive identification. Dickite is an important...
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    Mineralogy (redirect from Mineral ecology)
    : 4 : 15  X-ray diffraction was demonstrated by Max von Laue in 1912, and developed into a tool for analyzing the crystal structure of minerals by the father/son...
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    X-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction and electron diffraction. These three types of radiation interact with the specimen in different ways. X-rays interact...
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    Ferrihydrite (category Iron(III) minerals)
    exists as a fine grained and highly defective nanomaterial. The powder X-ray diffraction pattern of Fh contains two scattering bands in its most disordered...
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    Garnierite (category Nickel minerals)
    following minerals: serpentine, talc, sepiolite, smectite, or chlorite, and Ni-Mg silicates, with or without alumina, that have x-ray diffraction patterns...
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    Quartz (redirect from Citrine (mineral))
    rutile needles that produce asterism in transmitted light. Recent X-ray diffraction studies suggest that the color is due to thin microscopic fibers of...
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    (2015). "Reapproval of betalomonosovite as a valid mineral species: single-crystal X-ray diffraction, HRTEM, Raman and IR". Periodico di Mineralogia. ECMS2015:...
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  • X-ray Powder Diffraction Analysis of Clay Minerals, Layer Charge Characteristics of 2:1 Silicate Clay Minerals, and Scanning Probe Microscopy of Clay...
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    by many techniques, including calorimetry, strength development, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope and atomic force microscopy. Portland...
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  • Chemically, clay minerals are a range of phyllosilicate minerals with certain reactive properties. Before the advent of X-ray diffraction clay was thought...
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    Nacrite (category Clay minerals group)
    Al2Si2O5(OH)4 is a clay mineral that is polymorphous (or polytypic) with kaolinite. It crystallizes in the monoclinic system. X-ray diffraction analysis is required...
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    Alacránite (category Arsenic minerals)
    that the mineral was identical to the species occurring in the Ag-As-Sb vein deposit at Alacran due to the similarity of its X-ray diffraction powder pattern...
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    electron probe microanalysis, or X-ray diffraction analysis, they have been found to be composed primarily of clay minerals, quartz, and feldspars, with a...
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  • explanations. Specific gravity, streak (streak color and mineral hardness) and X-ray powder diffraction are quite specific for a Nickel-Strunz identifier (updated...
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    Coffinite (category Uranium(IV) minerals)
    marcasite, roscoelite, clay minerals and amorphous organic matter. Coffinite's chemical formula is U(SiO4)1−x(OH)4x. X-ray powder patterns from samples...
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    Sepiolite (category Clay minerals group)
    -⁠shəm; German: [ˈmeːɐ̯ʃaʊm] ; meaning "sea foam"), is a soft white clay mineral, often used to make tobacco pipes (known as meerschaum pipes). A complex...
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    Morozov, I. V.; Znamenkov, K. O.; Yu; Korenev, M. (1995). "Synthesis and X-Ray Structure of New Copper(II) Nitrates: Cu(NO3)2·H2O and β-modification of...
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  • Cristallographie. He was also elected member of the Clay Minerals Society of USA. A technical book titled X-Ray Diffraction by Disordered Lamellar Structures was published...
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    Graphite (redirect from Plumbago (mineral))
    Origin of low-friction behavior in graphite investigated by surface x-ray diffraction, SLAC-PUB-10429 (PDF) (Report). Archived (PDF) from the original on...
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    Armenian bole (redirect from Bolus clay)
    "Synchrotron X-ray diffraction of bole layers from Portuguese gilded baroque retables". Applied Clay Science. 116–117: 39–45. doi:10.1016/j.clay.2015.08.012...
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    Illite to Muscovite in Pelitic Rocks: Constraints from X-Ray Diffraction". Clays and Clay Minerals. 46 (1): 79–82. Bibcode:1998CCM....46...79G. doi:10.1346/CCMN...
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  • At lower water to binder ratios (pastes), thermal analysis or X-ray powder diffraction techniques are commonly used to determine remaining calcium hydroxide...
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    Cookeite (category Monoclinic minerals)
    Lister, "Structures, compositions, and X-ray diffraction identification of dioctahedral chlorites", Clays Clay Min., vol. 37, no 3, June 1989, p. 193-202...
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  • xenotime A rare earth phosphate mineral whose major component is yttrium orthophosphate (YPO4). X-ray diffraction (XRD) A method of determining the...
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