Vermiculite - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
A.L. Bush, in Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology, 2001 2.2 Vermiculite. Vermiculite is a mica, a hydrated, magnesium–iron–aluminum ctahedral sheet silicate of varied composition. Its basic unit is two tetrahedral silicate sheets interlayered by an octahedral sheet that contains aluminum and iron (Grim 1962).Each tripartite layer, on its upper and lower …
