Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society (Jan 2004)

Physicochemical and structural characteristics of HEU-type zeolitic tuff treated by hydrochloric acid

  • Radosavljević-Mihajlović Ana S.,
  • Dondur Vera T.,
  • Daković Aleksandra S.,
  • Lemić Jovan B.,
  • Tomašević-Čanović Magdalena R.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2298/JSC0404273R
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 69, no. 4
pp. 273 – 282

Abstract

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Samples of natural HEU-type zeolites – clinoptilolite-Ca, from the Novakovici deposit (near Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina) were treated with the hydrochloric acid of various concentrations (from 10-3Mto 2M). Zeolitic tuffs before and after the acid treatment were examined using IR, XRPD, and chemical analyses. The changes in the crystal structure of acid treated samples showed a significant reduction in the crystallinity of zeolitic tuffs (60–70 %), which were effected by hydrochloric acid with concentrations of 1 M and above.

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