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6.9. What is the weight percent interlayer water in a saturated Ca 2þ smectite?
Answer: 36%.

6.10. How might two clays having the same chemical composition have very
different physical properties?

References and Further Reading

Grim, R. E. (1968). Clay Mineralogy. McGraw-Hill, New York.
Handy, R. L., and Williams, W. W. (1967). ‘‘Chemical stabilization of an active landslide.’’
ASCE Civil Engineering, 37, (8).
Handy, R. L., and Demirel, T. (1987). ‘‘Swelling Pressures and d-Spacings of
Montmorillonite.’’ Proc. 6th Int. Conf. on Expansive Soils 1, 161–166.
Mitchell, J. K. (1993). Fundamentals of Soil Behavior, 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons,
New York.
Moore, D. M., and Reynolds, R. C. (1997). X-Ray Diffraction and the Identification and
Analysis of Clay Minerals. Oxford University Press, New York.
Velde (1992). Introduction to Clay Minerals: Chemistry. Springer, New York.

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