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Experimental studies of fine-grained micas

I. Organic contamination on the surface of wet-ground muscovite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

P. G. Rouxhet
Affiliation:
Materials Research Laboratory, and Department of Geochemistry and Mineralogy, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
G. W. Brindley
Affiliation:
Materials Research Laboratory, and Department of Geochemistry and Mineralogy, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Abstract

The surface properties of wet-ground muscovite were studied by thermodynamics of water adsorption. The surface appears to be covered by contaminating material, probably organic, which is strongly held; it was not removed at 350° C and under a vacuum of 10−4 torr. Attention is directed to the difficulty of maintaining freshly made silicate surfaces without contamination and to the importance of surface conditions in the interpretation of silicate properties which involve surface phenomena.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1966

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