Advanced Mineralogy

The first out of five planned volumes contains a wealth of recent results on the structures and properties of minerals and mineral matter. All five planned volumes allow a systematic overview of all mineralogical disciplines, important for both science and industry.

1 The Chemical Nature of Minerals.- 1.1 Chemical Composition of Minerals. Crystallochemical Constraints and the Nature of Impurities.- 1.2 Treatment of Chemical Composition Data for Minerals.- 1.3 The Mineral Composition of the Earth's Crust, Mantle, Meteorites, Moon and Planets.- 2 Crystal Structures of Minerals.- 2.1 General Results of Crystal Structure Analysis of Minerals.- 2.2 Types of Structural Relations in Minerals.- 2.3 Systematics of Crystal Structures and Crystallochemical Classifications of Minerals.- 3 Real Structures of Minerals.- 3.1 Point Defects in Minerals.- 3.2 Direct Imaging of Point Defects by HRTEM.- 3.3 Point Defects and Diffusion in Minerals.- 3.4 Point Defects as Precursors for Electron-Hole Centers: Systematics and Theories of Radiation Centers in Minerals.- 3.5 Structural Types of NonStoichiometry in Minerals.- 3.6 X-Ray Topographic Study of the Real Structure of Minerals.- 3.7 Twinning Due to Phase Transformations and Plastic Deformation.- 4 Natural Glasses.- 4.1 Structure and Properties of Silicate Glasses and Melts; Theories and Experiment.- 4.2 X-Ray Studies of Glass Structure.- 4.3 Terrestrial and Lunar, Volcanic and Impact Glasses, Tektites, and Fulgurites.- 4.4 Nuclear Waste Glasses: Recent Advances in the Spectroscopic Investigation of Their Structure.- 5 Chemical Bonding in Minerals.- 5.1 Survey of Quantum Chemistry and Methods Used to Calculate the Electronic Structures of Minerals.- 5.2 Chemical Bonding in Silicates.- 5.3 Chemical Bonding in Sulfide Minerals.- 5.4 Bonding in Oxides, Oxyanions, and Halides.- 5.5 Electronic Structures of Iron Oxides and Silicates.- 5.6 Hydrogen Bonding in Minerals.- 6 Properties of Minerals.- 6.1 Elastic Properties of Minerals.- 6.2 Hardness of Minerals.- 6.3 Deformations in Minerals.- 6.4 Electrical Properties of Minerals.- 6.5 Lattice Dynamics, Vibrational Spectra, Thermodynamic and Heat Properties of Minerals.- 6.6 Magnetic Properties of Minerals.- 6.7 Optical Properties of Minerals.- 6.8 Technological Mineralogy and Technological Properties of Minerals.- 6.9 Mineral Properties in Engineering Geology.- 7 Mineralogical Material Science.- 7.1 Concept of Materials as a New Approach to Solids and Minerals; Natural Minerals, and Their Synthetic Analogs as Materials.- 7.2 An Overview of Materials for Electronics and Optics.- 7.3 Multifunctional Minerals.- Mineral Index.