Research Article
Sorption of Uranium(VI) and Thorium(IV) by Jordanian Bentonite
Table 1
The major XRD peaks for raw bentonite.
| | Mineral | | (Å) |
| | Montmorillonite (bentonite) (M) | 19.89 | 4.457 | | 35.36 | 2.536 | | 40.30 | 2.236 | | 61.84 | 1.499 |
| | Quartz (Q) | 20.88 | 4.251 | | 26.67 | 3.340 | | 50.18 | 1.817 |
| | Anorthite | 13.71 | 6.452 | | 21.98 | 4.041 | | 28.43 | 3.137 |
| | Calcite | 29.84 | 2.991 |
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