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Swelling of Clay–Water Systems

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CLAY–WATER systems are such that care must be taken to distinguish between systems which describe the final reproducible hysteresis loop and those systems which can be regarded more appropriately as having a gel-like structure.

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AYLMORE, L., QUIRK, J. Swelling of Clay–Water Systems. Nature 183, 1752–1753 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831752a0

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