Quartz Cleavage and Quick Clays

Quartz cleavage and quick clays.

On Clays

Base-exchange determinations were made on selected clays of the montmorill0niteillite group to test this method as an analytical tool for the analysis of mixed-layer aggregates. The relatively rapid manganese method developed by Bower and Truog was used and its precision determined oll monodisperse, monomineralic fractions and monodisperse fractions of prepared mixtures of illite and montmorill...

A Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) Study of Single-Strand DNA Hybridization and Hydrolytic Cleavage

The use of a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) for monitorin g in situ the immobilization of singlestrand DNA marked with mercaptol group at the 5'-end on the surface of a gold-filled 7.995 MHz AT-cut quartz crystal by Au–S bond with the self-assembly technique is reported. The hybridization of ssDNA with complementary 10-mer ODN and 8-mer ODN is described. The QCM was also employed to analyze ...

ESR of clays

Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy has contributed significantly to the identification and characterization pf paramagnetic impurities associated with clays, Following a brief discussion of the general principles of the technique, a review is given of the application of ESR to the study of those paramagnetic species (chiefly iron and radiation-induced lattice defects) located either wit...

Chemical Characterization of Tablets, Sealing Clays, and Source Clays from Tell Leilan, Syria

When attempting to deal with questions involving the emergence and evolution of ancient complex societies, one of the major problems faced by researchers is how to monitor abstract processes from the material remains recovered in excavation. Clay sealings and tablets, which provide multiple independent lines of information: iconographic and/or epigraphic; functional (type of sealing i.e. door l...