aliettite

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interstratified mineral structure

  • sheet structure of silica tetrahedrons
    In clay mineral: Interstratified clay minerals

    hydrobiotite (trioctahedral mica/vermiculite), aliettite (talc/saponite), and kulkeite (talc/chlorite). Other than the ABAB . . . type with equal numbers of the two component layers in a structure, many modes of layer-stacking sequences ranging from nearly regular to completely random are possible. The following interstratifications of two components are…

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