Physics Meets Mineralogy
Physics Meets Mineralogy

Author: Hideo Aoki

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-09-25

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9780521643429

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Leading international researchers discuss the application of condensed matter physics to mineralogy and crystallography.

Crystallography
Crystallography

Author: Celia Marcos

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-12-02

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 3030967832

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This textbook presents an extensive manual of crystallography, including geometric crystallography, crystallochemistry, and crystallophysics. Illustrated with a wealth of figures and diagrams, it offers a thorough introduction to crystals for undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning the essentials and advanced concepts of crystallography. The book begins with basic concepts such as the geometry, morphology and symmetry of lattices, allowing readers to approach the subject from a mathematical point of view, abstracting it from its material content. In turn, the second part focuses on crystallochemistry and explains the differences between ideal and real crystals, and between static and dynamic ones. The third part of the textbook concerns crystallophysics and addresses the electrical, magnetic, mechanical, elastic and optical properties of crystals, as well as the fundamental laws and methods of X-ray diffraction.

High-Pressure Crystallography
High-Pressure Crystallography

Author: Przemyslaw Dera

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-06-22

Total Pages: 603

ISBN-13: 9048192587

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This unique book is devoted to the theme of crystallographic studies at high pressure. It places emphasis on the phenomena characteristic to the compressed state of matter, as well as experimental and theoretical techniques, used to study these phenomena.

Structural Classification of Minerals
Structural Classification of Minerals

Author: J. Lima-de-Faria

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9401705364

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This book presents the second volume of a complete development of the new structural classification of minerals, which is based on the internal crystal structure, and is therefore its natural classification. Because of the large domain of the mineral kingdom, this work is divided into three volumes, in which the minerals are ordered from the structurally simple to the more complex. Audience: This work will be of particular interest to teachers and research workers in mineralogy, and in inorganic crystal structures in academia.

Structural Classification of Minerals
Structural Classification of Minerals

Author: J. Lima-de-Faria

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001-05-31

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780792368922

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This book presents a complete development of the new structural classification of minerals, which is based on the internal crystal structure, and therefore is its natural classification. Because of the large domain of the mineral kingdom, this book is divided in three volumes, where the minerals are ordered from the structurally simple to the more complex. This work will be of particular interest to teachers and research workers in Mineralogy, and also in Inorganic Crystal Structures in universities.

Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography
Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography

Author: Thomas Armbruster

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-11-13

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 3110417103

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"Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography" presents a collection of review articles with the common topic: structural properties of minerals and synthetic analogues. It is a valuable resource for mineralogists, materials scientists, crystallographers, and earth scientists. This book includes: An introduction to the RRUFF database for structural, spectroscopic, and chemical mineral identification. A systematic evaluation of structural complexity of minerals. ab initio computer modelling of mineral surfaces. Natural quasicrystals of meteoritic origin. The potential role of terrestrial ringwoodite on the water content of the Earth's mantle. Structural characterization of nanocrystalline bio-related minerals by electron-diffraction tomography. The uniqueness of mayenite-type compounds as minerals and high-tech ceramics.

Structural Mineralogy
Structural Mineralogy

Author: J. Lima-de-Faria

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 9401583927

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This work presents a novel pure structural classification of minerals, based on the minerals' internal structure. In more detail, it is based on the strength distribution and directional character of the bonds. This new classification may be considered as an extension of the structural classification of silicates, to the complete domain of minerals. A complete and well organized overview of 230 mineral structure types comprizing the more common minerals is presented in chart form. On the charts, the crystal structures are presented in a number of complementary ways such as in projection, close packing, coordinated polyhedra and layer description. This work is of particular interest to teachers and research workers in crystallography, mineralogy and inorganic crystal chemistry in academia.

Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in Minerals
Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in Minerals

Author: S. Ghose

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1461238625

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This volume in Advances in Physical Geochemistry presents the latest synthesis of theory and experimental data pertaining to structural and magnetic phase transitions in a variety of geochemically important minerals. The book is the first to cover the impact of this rapidly progressing area of solid state physics in earth sciences and reflects its growing significance for mineralogy and petrology.