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Quantitative Analysis of Clay Mineral Mixtures by X-ray Diffraction

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THE basic relation underlying all quantitative diffraction analyses with the X-ray diffractometer is1:

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  2. Brindley, G. W., in The X-ray Identification and Crystal Structure of Clay Minerals, edit. by Brown, G., pp. 493–494 (Mineralogical Soc. Great Britain, London, 1961).

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THEISEN, A., BELLIS, E. Quantitative Analysis of Clay Mineral Mixtures by X-ray Diffraction. Nature 204, 1228–1230 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041228a0

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