Ceres, asteroid 101955 Bennu, and comet Tempel 1, as well as Jupiter's moon Europa.

Structure

Like all phyllosilicates, clay minerals are characterised by two-dimensional sheets of corner-sharing tetrahedra or octahedra. The sheet units have the chemical composition . Each silica tetrahedron shares three of its vertex oxygen ions with other tetrahedra, forming

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