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Clay minerals and construction of kaolinite, montmorillonite, and illite

Clay minerals and construction of kaolinite, montmorillonite, and illite What is a Clay minerals

Clay minerals:- There are two fundamental building blocks for the clay mineral structures. One is a silica tetrahedral unit and a second building block is an octahedral unit.

One is a silica tetrahedral unit in which four oxygen or hydroxy is having the configuration of a tetrahedron enclose…