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Agriculture · Q26

Soil Science

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 26

Q26

Chain like Phyllosilicate is

A.
Amphibole
B.
Chlorite
C.
Palygorskite-sepiolite
Answer
D.
Imogolite

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Phyllosilicate, are a compound with a structure in which silicate tetrahedrons each consisting of a central silicon atom surrounded by four oxygen at the corners of a tetrahedron are arranged in form of sheets or chains.
A chain like phyllosilicate is Palygorskite-sepiolite. Both of them have similar fibrous or lath-like morphologies, but palygorskite exhibits more structural diversity.