Characterization of urea-modified Palabora vermiculite

Applied Clay Science

Volumn 105-106, Issue , 2015, Pages 14-20

  Muiambo, Herminio F ^a,d   Focke, Walter W ^a   Atanasova, Maria ^a,b   Benhamida, Aida ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Western Cape Regional Office   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BEJAIA   (Algeria)

^d EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

Exfoliation; Ion exchange; Thermal mechanical analysis; Urea; Vermiculite

Indexed keywords

ION EXCHANGE; IONS; METABOLISM; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; UREA;

CO-INTERCALATION; COMPRESSIVE FORCES; EXFOLIATION; EXPANDED VERMICULITE; ONSET TEMPERATURE; THERMAL MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; THERMO-MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; VERMICULITE;

BLOWING AGENTS;

ION EXCHANGE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMOMECHANICS; UREA; VERMICULITE;

EID: 84919941521     PISSN: 01691317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clay.2014.12.019     Document Type: Article

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