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THE interesting letters in NATURE on the cellular structure of emulsions induced me to test the behaviour of clay which I have been accumulating for some time for evaporation experiments. The clay is obtained by the usual sedimentation method, and is that fraction of the soil which does not settle in twenty-four hours in a beaker containing dilute ammonia to a depth of 8.5 cm. The suspension is then evaporated to dryness in vacuo.
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KEEN, B. Some Phenomena of Clay Suspensions. Nature 93, 321–322 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093321b0
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