“…Each type of transformation demands a certain amount of energy to occur (BRETZKE, 2015). In the DSC curves, the ascending peaks correspond to exothermal events, while descending peaks correspond to endothermal events (LIMA, 2016). The DSC curves for each clay (black, green, and red) are presented in Figures 8 to 10 and the DSC results are in Table 4.…”