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Title: Chemical disaggregation of rock. [disaggregation of clay minerals by hydrazine or hydrogen peroxide]

Patent ·
OSTI ID:7133062

Rock containing certain clay minerals is chemically disaggregated by treatment with a compound which causes a rupturing or negation of the bonding between unit cells of the clay mineral. The clay minerals may be illite, illite-type, mixed lattice minerals of the illite type or mixture thereof. The treatment compound may be hydrazine, hydrogen peroxide or mixtures thereof. The treatment of the clay minerals may be in situ.

Assignee:
Secretary of the Interior
Patent Number(s):
US 3567427
OSTI ID:
7133062
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 7 Nov 1968
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English