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The Polymer Model of Thermochemical Clay Mineral Stability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Garrison Sposito
Garrison Sposito*
Affiliation:
Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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Abstract

The Nriagu polymer model of 2:1 layer type clay minerals develops from the premise that clay minerals are condensation copolymers of solid hydroxides. In the Mattigod-Sposito formulation of the model, standard state chemical potentials (standard Gibbs energies of formation from the elements) of 2:1 clay minerals are predicted quantitatively with a linear correlation equation relating the standard Gibbs energy of the polymerization reaction (ΔGor) to the half-cell layer charge of the clay mineral and to the valence and ionic radius of the exchangeable cation. It is now shown that this correlation equation can be derived from two basic assumptions: (1) that the standard Gibbs energy change for the transfer of a cation in a pure hydroxide solid to a hydroxide component in the tetrahedral or octahedral sheet of a 2:1 clay mineral is independent of the nature of the cation and (2) that the difference between ΔGor for the polymerization reaction to form a 2:1 clay mineral and ΔGor for the same reaction to form the zero layer-charge analog of the clay mineral is proportional to the number of interlayer exchangeable cations per unit cell of the clay mineral and to the radius of its exchangeable cation. Both of these assumptions can be tested experimentally, independent of the polymer model.

Keywords

Chemical potentialIlliteLayer chargePolymer modelSmectiteStabilityVermiculite
Type
Research Article
Information
Clays and Clay Minerals , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 198 - 203
Copyright
Copyright © 1986, The Clay Minerals Society

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