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Diffusion of Potassium from Mica-like Clay Minerals

Nature volume 213, pages 1156–1157 (1967)Cite this article

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DIFFUSION coefficients for the release of potassium from phlogophite and biotite in the range 1 to 50 × 10−10 cm2/sec have been reported by Rausell-Colom, Sweatman, Wells and Norrish1. Similar measurements have not yet been obtained for muscovite or its counterpart in soils, the fine grained materials generally referred to as illite.

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CHUTE, J., QUIRK, J. Diffusion of Potassium from Mica-like Clay Minerals. Nature 213, 1156–1157 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2131156a0

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