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White Clay
| origin | commercially availabel from Argiletz, France |
| main constituent | illite, kaolinite, montmorillonite, quartz |
| practical significance | clay is believed to occur on different Solar System bodies such as Mars satellites and asteroids. Moreover, it is an important component of mineral aerosols in the Earth atmosphere |
| particle size | measured size distributions Mie: reff=2.6 μm, v Fraunhofer: reff=1.6 μm, veff=1.4 |
| particle shape | irregular |
| refractive index | estimated to be in the range [1.5 -1.7] + i[0.00001-0.001] |
| color | white |
| scattering matrix | 488 nm 647 nm |
| article | Muñoz O, Moreno F, Guirado D, Ramos JL, Volten H, Hovenier JW. The IAA Cosmic Dust Laboratory: experimental scattering matrices of clay particles. Icarus, vol. 211, pp. 894-900, 2011 |
