“…Present address: Department of Agronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 53O Emerson, 1956), displacement of water of hydration (M. E. Wadsworth and A. C. Peck, private communication, 1958) and ionic interaction with (001) edges of clay (Street, 1959;Packter, 1957;Warkentin and Miller, 1958) have been proposed as bonding mechanisms, but the evidence in support of these theories has been of indirect nature. The effect of exchange cations and anions and solution electrolytes on adsorption of synthetic polyelectrolytes on clays has not been adequately evaluated (Bergmann and Fiedler, 1956).…”