P. Komadel et al., CHEMICAL-STABILITY OF ALUMINUM-IRON-PILLARED AND IRON-PILLARED MONTMORILLONITE - EXTRACTION AND REDUCTION OF IRON, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (10), 1994, pp. 1243-1244
A substantial amount of iron(III) from Al/Fe- and Fe-pillars is (i) ex
tracted by hydrochloric acid, ammonium oxalate at pH 3 and dithionite
and (ii) reduced to Fe-II by hydrazine vapour or liquid or dithionite,
while only trace extraction and reduction was found for dithionite-ci
trate-bicarbonate (DCB).