The exchange of calcium and magnesium for sodium at 298 K on Wyoming bentonite was investigated in perchlorate and chloride background media maintained at pH 7.0 and at a total cation normality of 0.05 N . In the perchlorate medium, the apparent total adsorbed metal charge was independent of the exchanger composition and equal to 0.97 ± 0.06 mol c kg −1 (average for Na‐Ca and Na‐Mg exchanges). In the chloride medium, the apparent total adsorbed metal charge increased with the amount of calcium or magnesium adsorbed, tending to a value near 1.3 mol c kg −1 as the clay became saturated with the bivalent metal cation. These results were interpreted as evidence for the adsorption of CaCl + or MgCl + complexes in the exchange experiments conducted in the chloride medium. A detailed analysis of the exchange data led to the conclusion that a Ca‐montmorillonite or Mg‐montmorillonite suspension in a chloride background consists of quasicrystals with bivalent cations adsorbed on the internal surfaces and monovalent metal‐chloride complexes adsorbed on the external surfaces.
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Sposito et al. (1983) studied this question.