Comparison of four elemental mass balance methods for clay mineral quantification

Agriculture & Biology

• clay minerals 100%
• smectite 59%
• illite 40%
• halloysite 29%
• minerals 19%
• methodology 18%
• clay 17%
• elemental composition 15%
• system optimization 8%
• bentonite 7%
• atomic absorption spectrometry 7%
• linear models 6%
• X-ray diffraction 6%
• least squares 6%
• powders 4%
• sampling 4%
• degradation 3%

Chemical Compounds

• Mass Balance 82%
• Clay Mineral 82%
• Chemical Element 53%
• Mineral 45%
• Error 41%
• Bentonite 15%
• Powder X-Ray Diffraction 10%
• Decomposition 8%
• Weight 7%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• mass balance 61%
• smectite 39%
• comparison 29%
• halloysite 25%
• illite 25%
• method 15%
• atomic emission spectroscopy 9%
• chemical mass balance 8%
• bentonite 6%
• nonlinearity 6%
• X-ray diffraction 4%
• plasma 4%
• decomposition 4%
• matrix 3%