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Ammonium–Potassium–Calcium Exchange on Vermiculite and Hydroxy-aluminum Vermiculite V. P. Evangelou* and J. Lumbanraja ABSTRACT used to predict ternary cation-exchange data. Chu and Sposito (1981) showed at a theoretical level that one Binary and ternary cation-exchange reactions involving NH , K , 4 and Ca2 on vermiculite and hydroxy-Al interlayered vermiculite couldn’t predict exchange–phase solution–phase inter- (HIV) were investigated. In the case of vermiculite, NH4-Ca exchange actions of a ternary system solely from data obtained was nearly indistinguishable from the nonpreference isotherm while from binary exchange. These researchers argued that HIV exhibited preference for NH . The presence of K had significant 4 experimental data obtained from systems with three suppressing impact on the apparent NH selectivity in NH -Ca ex- 4 4 ions are necessary. change in HIV most likely because of retardation of Ca2 diffusion Experimental data of ternary exchange involving in the interlayer. For vermiculite, the presence of K in the NH -Ca 4 NH -Ba-La on montmorillonite were reported by El- system induced apparent high affinity sites for NH most likely be- 4