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BERGAYA, F., THENG, B. K. G. & LAGALY, G. (eds) 2006. Handbook of Clay Science. Developments in Clay Science Series Volume 1. xxi + 1224 pp.

Amsterdam: Elsevier. Price £105, US $165, Euros 150 (hard covers). ISBN 0 08 044183 1.

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This compilation of review papers is an attempt to bring together as a handbook the ‘core information on the varied and diverse aspects that make up the discipline of clay science, ranging from the fundamental structure and surface properties of clays and clay minerals to their industrial and environmental applications’. The attempt is timely not only because information about applied clay mineralogy is widely distributed throughout the literature, but also because there is the belief – at least among the editors of this volume –that clays and clay minerals in their . . . [Full Text of this Article]