Fakulti Agro-Industri dan Sumber Asli

Includes CD 00000317

Rev. ed. of: Manual of mineralogy. 21st ed., rev. c1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Physical properties of minerals -- Elements of crystal chemistry -- Aspects of crystal structures -- Chemical composition of minerals -- Crystallography: external symmetry of minerals -- Internal order and symmetry in minerals -- Crystal projections -- Selected point groups and further aspects of space groups -- Crystal growth and defects; twinning, color, and magnetism -- Mineral stability and phase diagrams -- Post-crystallization processes in minerals -- Optical microscopy -- Analytical and imaging methods in mineral science -- Crystal chemistry and systematic descriptions of native elements, sulfides, and sulfosalts -- Crystal chemistry and systematic descriptions of oxides, hydroxides, and halides -- Crystal chemistry and systematic descriptions of carbonates, nitrates, borates, sulfates, chromates, tungstates, molybdates, phosphates, arsenates, and vanadates -- Crystal chemistry of rock-forming silicates -- Systematic descriptions of rock-forming silicates -- Gem minerals -- Mineral assemblages: introduction to rock types -- Determinative tables -- Appendices: 1. Outstanding contributions to the mineral sciences -- 2. Development of models for the atom -- 3. Distribution of forms in 32 point groups, arranged by crystal system -- 4. Space groups as an expression of morphology and structure.

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