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Interlamellar Sorption in a ‘Methylated’ Montmorillonite

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As a sequel to the work already carried out on interlamellar sorption of organic molecules on methylated graphitic acid1 and on the structure of methylated graphitic acid by electron diffraction2, I decided to try to methylate montmorillonite, and to examine its capacity for interlamellar sorption. The problem of methylating montmorillonite has been discussed a good deal, and many arguments for and against have been put forward, and have been linked with the two structural models for montmorillonite.

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DE LA CRUZ, F. Interlamellar Sorption in a ‘Methylated’ Montmorillonite. Nature 205, 381–382 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205381b0

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