Impact of Uniaxial Mechanical Perturbation on Structural Properties and Smectite Porosity Features: Ion Exchanger Efficiency and Adsorption Performance Fate

Table 2

Qualitative XRD investigation in the case of unstressed and stressed samples.

Samples	2θ°	d001 (Å)	FWHM (2θ°)	D (Å)	ξ (Å)	Hydration characters
Unstressed sample
SWy-Na	7.16	12.34	0.69	25.13	0.086	Homogenous
SWy-Co	6.25	13.95	1.02	16.67	0.428	Interstratified
SWy-Cd	6.45	13.69	1.23	20.62	0.812	Interstratified
Stressed sample
SWy-Co_3%rh	9.53	9.27	0.64	11.86	0.151	Interstratified
SWy-Co_97%rh	5.10	17.32	1.41	10.67	0.875
	4.30	20.54
SWy-Cd_3%rh	7.22	12.23	0.78	12.56	0.127	Interstratified
	5.87	15.04
SWy-Cd_97%rh	5.08	17.38	1.33	11.14	0.788
	4.39	20.11