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Participant: part of or influencing processesSmectite
Appears in 6 processs and 19 steps. Everything below is linked: open a process to see it in context.
Top processes
- Start: Shrink-swell cycles and crack dynamics in clay soils
- End: Shrink-swell cycles and crack dynamics in clay soils
- Wetting hydrates the cations between smectite layers: Ca-smectite swells to about 1.9 nm basal spacing, whereas Na-smectite at low salt swells osmotically beyond 4 nm
- and 5 more in this process
Often found with
Clay minerals 15Water 9Soil water 9Clay minerals 8Pore space 3Cracks 3Kaolinite 1Iron oxides 1Cations 1Magnesium 1Silica 1Sun 1
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