Go to this website and find the six images of clay particles. Then, answer the following questions: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/SEM-images-of-clay-minerals-a-pseudohexagonal-crystals-of-kaolinite-b-tubular_fig4_311583515
Answer a-b-c
A. Read the figure caption. What is the name of the four clay minerals pictured (your answer should be four single words that end in ite).
B. Notice the clay particles in figure (a). This is the most common clay mineral. It is very important to note that although there appear to be 4 particles, there are actually 1000’s of particles. In fact, there are four ‘flocs’ (or groups) of particles. Each particle is actually very thin, and so, each floc is a stack of hundreds of particles held together like pages of a book (each page being a particle). What is the name of the force that is holding these particles together? Hint: reader…
C. Continue to explore figure (a). Notice the scale bar: 5 m. That is 5 micrometers, which is 0.005 mm. The width of most of the particles shown ranges between 1 and 5 m. The thickness of each particle, is, however, less than 0.1 m. The figure caption states “SEM images …”. What does SEM mean? In general, how does it work? Up to 5 sentences. Cite your references.