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Relationships between calcium silicates and clay minerals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

H. F. W. Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen
J. W. Howison
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen
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Abstract

The crystal-chemical basis of the relationship between hydrated calcium silicate and clay minerals is discussed, and a review is given of recent work on the tobermorite minerals, the group of hydrated calcium silicates which most nearly resembles the clay minerals. New data are presented for the specific gravities, refractive indices, basal spacings, and dehydration isobars of synthetic tobermorite minerals, and a tentative explanation is proposed for the variability of Ca : Si ratio in these substances.

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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1956

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