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The effect of isomorphous substitutions on the intensities of (001) reflections of mica- and chlorite-type structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

George Brown*
Affiliation:
Pedology Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden

Abstract

A widely used method of quantitative analysis in clay mineralogy . is the comparison of the intensities of X-ray reflections from a socalled standard mineral with the unknown. In the clay minerals where isomorphous substitution is frequent the term 'mineral' generally covers a range of compositions and what is meant by such a term is a group of closely similar minerals. The so-called standard mineral is any member of a group which the particular worker may have in a pure or almost pure condition. If the standard mineral and the mineral in the unknown give different intensities for an equal volume of material the results will be inaccurate.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1955, The Mineralogical Society

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