Table 4.
Chemical composition of OMMT (Cloisite 15A), determined by energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX) [28], Reproduced with permission from Dintcheva NTz, Polym. Degrad. Stab.; published by Elsevier, 2009.
| Element | Wt % | At % | K-Ratio | Z | A | F | |
| C | K | 26.97 | 52.20 | 0.0566 | 1.1058 | 0.1896 | 1.0001 |
| O | K | 11-45 | 16.64 | 0.0343 | 1.0845 | 0.2756 | 1.0004 |
| MgK | 1.12 | 1.07 | 0.0080 | 1.0354 | 0.6855 | 1.0053 | |
| AlK | 7.96 | 6.85 | 0.0633 | 1.0101 | 0.7826 | 1.0068 | |
| SiK | 21.10 | 17.54 | 0.1795 | 1.0453 | 0.8099 | 1.0001 | |
| AuM | 24.61 | 2.90 | 0.1721 | 0.7099 | 0.9850 | 1.0000 | |
| FeK | 6.70 | 2.79 | 0.0609 | 0.9169 | 0-9869 | 1.0052 | |
| Total: | 100.00 | 100.00 | |||||
| Element | Net Inte. | Bkgd Inte. | Inte. Error | P/B | |||
| C | K | 6.36 | 0.91 | 2.76 | 7.00 | ||
| O | K | 3.06 | 1.74 | 5.13 | 1.76 | ||
| MgK | 4.42 | 5.94 | 5.61 | 0.74 | |||
| AlK | 36.50 | 5.91 | 1.17 | 6.17 | |||
| SiK | 107.25 | 6.44 | 0.63 | 16.65 | |||
| AuM | 66.12 | 6.63 | 0.83 | 9.97 | |||
| FeK | 7.53 | 3.41 | 3.09 | 2.21 | |||
| Total: | |||||||