Matter
- Name
- Smectite or illite sub-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 0.0 ${\mu}m$ 1.0 ${\mu}m$ 1.0 None - Size method
- Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) images do not allow to measure "grain" sizes because of the peculiar structure of the phyllosilicate.
- Title
- Grinding and sieving
- Matters
- Matter
- Smectite or illite sub-µm grains (this matter)
- Processing steps
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Step Date Type Process Changes #1 mechanical Wet Grinding: the 25-50 µm powder was put into the grinding bowl of a planetary grinder with 500-µm diameter ZrO2 balls in ultra-pure ethanol for 150 minutes #2 mechanical Wet Sieving: the grinded material was passed through a 25-µm sieve using ethanol