Research Article
How the Solid/Liquid Ratio Affects the Cation Exchange Process and Porosity in the Case of Dioctahedral Smectite: Structural Analysis?
Table 4
Optimal structural parameters obtained from quantitative XRD analysis in the case of the SWy-Na sample.
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L.Th: layer thickness (Å); : basal spacing value (Å); : number of water molecules; : position of water molecules along IS thickness; : number of compensating cations; : position of compensating cations along IS thickness; : relative abundance of the A-type layer; : probabilities of the successive A-type layer; : average layer number per stack. |