The researchers focused on a specific smectite called saponite. They examined how saponite handles carbon dioxide and water vapor competing for space in the clay's tiny internal pores. Unlike past ...

The researchers concentrated on a type of surface clay mineral called "smectite," which is very efficient at trapping carbon. Just one grain of smectite is composed of many folds in which carbon ...

In 2023, he and Murray focused on a type of surface clay mineral called smectite, which is known to be a highly effective trap for carbon. Within a single grain of smectite are a multitude of ...

It is made by oceanic crust colliding with continental plates The implications of this natural phenomenon are monumental Geologists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have identified ...

It's likely the result of another resurgence of magma after the caldera's ancient lake had dried out, replacing lithium-smectite in lake sediment with an even richer lithium-illite claybed ...

The result: a clay called smectite. But that was just the first lithium injection. Eventually, as volcanic activity heated up again, hot brine containing additional lithium was driven up into the ...

This process also transformed much of the smectite into illite (different forms of clay minerals), which wound up along the southern rim of the basin. That, they conclude, explains why lithium is ...

Most of the desired metal there comes in the form of a mineral called smectite; under certain conditions, smectite can transform into a different mineral called illite that can sometimes also be ...

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