The Stability of Minerals

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This volume addresses the fundamental factors that underlie our understanding of mineral behaviour and crystal chemistry - a timely topic given current advances in research into the complex behaviour of solids and supercomputing.

List of contents

The stability of minerals: an introduction.- Bond topology, bond valence and structure stability.- Electronic paradoxes in the structures of minerals.- Lattice vibration and mineral stability.- Thermodynamics of phase transitions in minerals: a macroscopic approach.- The stability of modulated structures.- Thermochemistry of tetrahedrite-tennantite fahlores.- Thermodynamic data for minerals: a critical assessment.- The stability of clays.

Report

`Overall, this is an excellent volume... The real strength of [it] is that in a single volume it provides a convenient and wide-ranging summary of current developments in mineral energetics, from crystal chemistry to petrological applications. As such, it is to be warmly recommended for all Earth Science libraries.'
Mineralogical Magazine

Product details

• Assisted by: D Price (Editor), G D Price (Editor), L Ross (Editor), L Ross (Editor), G. D. Price (Editor), G.D. Price (Editor), N. L. Ross (Editor), N.L. Ross (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2009
• EAN: 9780412441509
• ISBN: 978-0-412-44150-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 717 g
• Illustrations: XII, 368 p.
• Series: The Mineralogical Society Series; The Mineralogical Society Series
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Mineralogy, petrography