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671 Texture and Microstructure of Thermally-treated Acid-leached Kaolinitic Clays Mervat Hassan1* and Hassan El-Shall2 (1) Central Metallurgical R D Institute, Cairo, Egypt. (2) Department of Material Science Engineering and Engineering Research Center for Particle Science Technology, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL, U.S.A. (Received 28 December 2008; revised form accepted 9 December 2009) ABSTRACT: Natural and modified kaolinitic clays were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM and EDS) and N2 adsorption techniques. Disordered, poorly crystalline kaolinite, containing some quartz and very little mica, was calcined at different temperatures and different times and then leached with 25 wt% sulphuric acid for 1 h at 98 °C. Calcination led to a reduction in both the specific surface area and the total pore volume due to dehydroxylation of kaolinite to meta-kaolinite (MK). However, subsequent leaching of the meta-kaolinite had a striking effect on the microporosity of the modified products. Thus, heating at 886 °C at 2 h (to yield MK 886°C) and subsequent leaching for 1 h produced 2 porous silica with a specific surface area of 233 m2/g and a total pore volume of 0.22 m2/g. T