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Is it possible to add a section to Xray diffraction methods on clay minerals? I am still doing research on it and couldn't help.
It does sound a good idea - there are methods used for XRD for clays that are not needed for other minerals. I'll look it up and see what I can do, but IIRC the basic issue is that for powders you concentrate on the interlayer spacing that gives a strong low theta peak and use this for identification. Andreww21:33, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi fellow clay people. I've added a bit on the smectite (hydrous phyllosilicate) nontronite.
Given the level of technical knowledge you have regarding the various compositions of clay, I'd greatly appreciate some discussion on the creation of tile from clay, topsoil, sand, and water and how this mixture, after drying and high temperature wood firing (+/-2,000 degrees F), becomes hardened tile.Barronica04:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The statement: "Clays have structures similar to the micas and therefore form flat hexagonal sheets." does not make sense. The statement should say that it is because clay minerals "form flat hexagonal sheets" that they are similar to micas.
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There's a "clay minerals" page in Portuguese not linked to this one[edit]
Clay minerals are called "argilominerais" in Portuguese. The Portuguese page is not linked to any other equivalent article in different languages, as you can see here. If anybody knows how to link this page with the others under the languages menu, I'd appreciate it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.134.231.245 (talk) 17:42, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"have been useful to humans since ancient times in agriculture " - does this actually mean anything? human use of basicly all soils (depending on what is available locally) is well known and hardly specific to clay.80.99.38.199 (talk) 18:42, 17 September 2017 (UTC).[reply]
Yes, clay is as (if not nearly as) important to the agricultural era as a technological resource, as wood was.
I see distinguishing differences. The articles could be better organized around those distinctions. The breadth of other-language versions of both articles supports keeping clay and clay mineral as two separate articles. -- Paleorthid (talk) 18:31, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]