The dehydroxylation temperature (T DHX) of dickite is ~100 K higher than T DHX of kaolinite (de Ligny and Navrotsky 1999) and most strikingly, dilatometry measurements revealed that kaolinite shrinks while dickite expands with dehydroxylation (Schomburg and Störr 1984).This observation also needs a more systematic investigation at the atomic …