Image: Mica dO
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Description: This image depicts the structure of the dioctahedral sheet of a mica. The size of the cations is to scale. The white spheres are apical oxygens and the red are hydroxyl. This is the gibbsite structure except for the substitution of apical oxygen for hydroxyl.
Title: Mica dO
Credit: Own work
Author: Kent G. Budge
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License: CC0
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