A regular solution site-mixing model for illites

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The dependence on the composition of the thermodynamic stability of an illite can be treated in terms of a regular solution site-mixing model. Four end-member micas (muscovite, pyrophyllite, phlogopite, and annite) were mixed to simulate an illite in this study. In the model, random mixing of cations was assumed over each given class of cation sites. Mixing over cation sites between different classes of cation sites was not allowed. The resulting free energy and chemical potential equations contain four site interaction parameters: three for octahedral site interactions and one for interlayer and tetrahedral site interactions. These parameters cannot presently be evaluated because of a lack of experimental data on Fe 3+ -free illites. The model does imply that the octahedral site interaction parameters must be significantly more positive than the interlayer and tetrahedral site interaction parameter to account for the dominant dioctahedral nature of most natural illites. This constraint is necessary to balance out the increase in stability due to the configurational entropy of an illite having a major trioctahedral component. The model can be extended to cover a wider range of illite compositions by the inclusion of an end-member mica containing Fe 3+ ions in the octahedral sites. At present the thermodynamic properties of such an end-member are unknown.

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