Journal
CLAYS AND CLAY MINERALS
Volume 48, Issue 1, Pages 120-131Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2000.0480115
Keywords
exchangeable cation; FTIR; hydration; hysteresis; smectite; sorption; water
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An environmental infrared microbalance (EIRM) cell was used to study H2O sorption on two montmorillonite samples as a function of water content and type of exchangeable cation. The vibrational spectra showed that H2O sorbed to the clay at low-water content was strongly influenced by the exchangeable cation and by the close proximity to the clay surface. At water contents <6 H2O molecules per exchangeable cation, the H-O-H bending mode of H2O (nu(2) mode) shifts to a lower frequency and is characterized by an increase in molar absorptivity. In contrast, the positions of the asymmetric and symmetric OH-stretching modes of sorbed water (nu(1) and nu(3) modes) shift to higher energies. These observations indicate that H2O molecules sorbed to the clay surface at low-water content are less hydrogen bonded than in bulk H2O, In addition, the vibrational-stretching and bending bands of the structural OW groups of the 2:1 layer are also strongly influenced by H2O content and type of exchangeable cation. By using the EIRM cell, the molar absorptivities of the structural OH-bending vibrations were measured as a function of H2O content. The position and molar absorptivity of the structural OH-bending bands at 920, 883, and 840 cm(-1) are strongly influenced by H2O content and type of exchangeable cation. The molar absorptivity of the 920-cm(-1) band, which is assigned to the AlAlOH group, decreased strongly at low-H2O content. This reduction in intensity is assigned to a dehydration-induced change in orientation of the structural OH groups resulting from the penetration of H2O molecules into siloxane ditrigonal cavities that are not associated with a net negative charge from isomorphous substitutions.
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