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Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography

Thomas Armbruster, Rosa Micaela Danisi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XII, 201 Seiten

2016
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-041704-3 (ISBN)

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This book covers the recent developments in Mineralogical Crystallography by presenting a collection of review articles written by prestigious, international authors in the field. The common topic of the papers is the structural characterization of minerals and synthetic analogues using different techniques.

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.

Prof. Thomas Armbruster, University of Bern, Switzerland;

Dr. Rosa Micaela Danisi, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Editorial
Contents
List of contributing authors
1. The power of databases: The RRUFF project
2. Structural complexity of minerals and mineral parageneses: Information and its evolution in the mineral world
3. Ab initio simulations of mineral surfaces: Recent advances in numerical methods and selected applications
4. Natural quasicrystals: A new frontier in mineralogy and its impact on our understanding of matter and the origin of the solar system
5. Ringwoodite: its importance in Earth Sciences
6. Investigation of bio-related minerals by electron-diffraction tomography: Vaterite, dental hydroxyapatite, and crystalline nanorods in sponge primmorphs
7. Mayenite Ca12Al14O32[X2−]: From minerals to the first stable electride crystals
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.11.2015
Zusatzinfo	27 schw.-w. u. 51 farb. Abb., 10 schw.-w. Tab.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	488 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
Schlagworte	Kristallographie • Mineralogie • Nanokristall • Oberfläche • Quasikristall • Ringwoodit • Spektralanalyse
ISBN-10	3-11-041704-9 / 3110417049
ISBN-13	978-3-11-041704-3 / 9783110417043
Zustand	Neuware