| 1. | It is a synonym for the smectite clay : stevensite.
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| 2. | The mineral smectite ( a phyllosilicate ) forms in near-neutral waters.
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| 3. | Literature articles will refer to a R1 ordered illite-smectite, for example.
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| 4. | The bundles are surrounded by a matrix of smectite clays that are slightly swellable.
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| 5. | The alunite-jarosite found in the smectite rind would have a similar origin.
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| 6. | The common clay minerals are montmorillonite or smectite, illite, and kaolinite or kaolin.
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| 7. | The rock is altered by water to smectite and kaolinite with quartz being left unaltered.
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| 8. | R1 ordered chlorite-smectite is known as corrensite, R1 illite-smectite is rectorite.
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| 9. | R1 ordered chlorite-smectite is known as corrensite, R1 illite-smectite is rectorite.
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| 10. | Scientists experimented with adding bentonite, one of the smectite family of clays, to the soil.
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