Matter
- Name
- Smectite or illite 100-200 µm grains
- Family
- mineral
- Database
- Experimentalists
- Level
- local matter
- Origins
- natural terrestrial
- Provider
- Bernard Schmitt, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), OSUG-D, 414, Rue de la Piscine, 38400 St-Martin d’Hères, France
- Body name
- Earth
- Preparation
- sieved fraction
- Phase type
- solid
- Component type (group)
- mineral (silicate mineral)
- Texture
- loose granular
- Type of porosity
- particulate
- Grain sizes
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Grains Size min Size max Size median Size width Size mass fraction Grain shape #1 100.0 ${\mu}m$ 200.0 ${\mu}m$ 1.0 None - Size method
- Grains were dry-sieved
- Title
- Grinding and sieving
- Matters
- Matter
- Smectite or illite 100-200 µm grains (this matter)
- Processing steps
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Step Date Type Process Changes #1 mechanical Grinding: the raw material was put into the grinding bowl of a planetary grinder with 15-mm diameter ZrO2 balls for 20 minutes of dry-grinding #2 mechanical Sieving: the grinded material was passed through 100-µm and 200-µm sieves