Talk:Clay mineral

Content Suggestion
Is it possible to add a section to Xray diffraction methods on clay minerals? I am still doing research on it and couldn't help.


 * It does sound a good idea - there are methods used for XRD for clays that are not needed for other minerals. I'll look it up and see what I can do, but IIRC the basic issue is that for powders you concentrate on the interlayer spacing that gives a strong low theta peak and use this for identification.  Andreww 21:33, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Barronica 04:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Added information on nontronite
Hi fellow clay people. I've added a bit on the smectite (hydrous phyllosilicate) nontronite.

Given the level of technical knowledge you have regarding the various compositions of clay, I'd greatly appreciate some discussion on the creation of tile from clay, topsoil, sand, and water and how this mixture, after drying and high temperature wood firing (+/-2,000 degrees F), becomes hardened tile.Barronica 04:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

clay and mica structures
The statement: "Clays have structures similar to the micas and therefore form flat hexagonal sheets." does not make sense. The statement should say that it is because clay minerals "form flat hexagonal sheets" that they are similar to micas.

203.56.233.124 03:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Klein and Dutrow (23rd edition of the manual of Mineral Science) state that the unit of the clay minerals is Si2O5, not what is stated in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The-prospector (talk • contribs) 04:14, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

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There's a "clay minerals" page in Portuguese not linked to this one
Clay minerals are called "argilominerais" in Portuguese. The Portuguese page is not linked to any other equivalent article in different languages, as you can see here. If anybody knows how to link this page with the others under the languages menu, I'd appreciate it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.134.231.245 (talk) 17:42, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

meaningless piece of wisdom
"have been useful to humans since ancient times in agriculture " - does this actually mean anything? human use of basicly all soils (depending on what is available locally) is well known and hardly specific to clay.80.99.38.199 (talk) 18:42, 17 September 2017 (UTC).


 * Yes, clay is as (if not nearly as) important to the agricultural era as a technological resource, as wood was.
 * Other soils (although used for growing plants out of), were not necessarily used as a resource for technology to my knowledge. 49.193.117.78 (talk) 17:03, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Merge?
Is this not the same as clay? I see no difference here. They both even have the same sub-headings. Senomo Drines (talk) 20:30, 13 October 2022 (UTC)


 * I see distinguishing differences. The articles could be better organized around those distinctions. The breadth of other-language versions of both articles supports keeping clay and clay mineral as two separate articles. -- Paleorthid (talk) 18:31, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Closing, given the uncontested objection and no support. Klbrain (talk) 09:47, 11 December 2022 (UTC)