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.

Layer types	%	L.Th
	15	10.50	0	0	0.0495	8.5	1	1	15	4.31%
	70	12.40	2	9.8	0.2310	9.8
	15	15.40	1	11.3	0.0495	12.6
			1	13.9

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.