The Collectors Guide To Silicate Crystal Structures

Author : R. J. Lauf
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764335792
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collector's Guide to Silicate Crystal Structures written by R. J. Lauf and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 140 color photos, diagrams, and text reveal the crystal structures, habits, names, and changing family relationships of silicate crystals. This thorough guide provides an introduction to crystallography, the current classification of silicate structures, and reviews orthosilicates, disilicates, chain silicates, sheet silicates, and framework silicates. Explore different ways the silicate tetrahedron can be arranged and great diversity of structures that result. Crystal structure is presented with drawings of ideal crystal forms and photographs of real crystals. In this way, mineral collectors can better understand the interplay between atomic arrangements and external habits, and ultimately develop an eye for recognizing crystal symmetry. This book is a must for all serious collectors of minerals.

Author : R. J. Lauf
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ISBN 13 : 9780764352867
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collector's Guide to Silicates written by R. J. Lauf and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive resource for mineral collectors, this comprehensive book describes the structural relationships among orthosilicateminerals, known for their hardness and brilliant colors, and the geological conditions that create prized specimens. It is illustrated with nearly 500 structure diagrams, color photos, and electron micrographs that will help collectors appreciate the minerals already in their collection, build a collection with greater depth, and find additional information. A web link allows readers to view the crystal structuresin three dimensions for a richer appreciation of their details, and an extensive bibliography includes easily accessible references ranging from foundational literature to reports on current scientific research.

Author : Robert Lauf
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764354366
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collector's Guide to Silicates written by Robert Lauf and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the structural relationships among di- and ringsilicate minerals, known for their hardness and brilliant colors, and the geological conditions that create the beautiful crystals prized by collectors. The minerals are arranged systematically to emphasize how they fit into structural groups, and generously illustrated with nearly 600 structure diagrams, color photos, and drawings. An extensive bibliography includes a broad range of easily accessible references ranging from the foundational literature and original species descriptions to reports on current scientific research.

Author : R. J. Lauf
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764341618
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collector's Guide to Quartz and Other Silica Minerals written by R. J. Lauf and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quartz is prized by both mineral collectors and lapidary artists. Over 130 vivid photographs of these beautiful minerals are presented to show each mineral in its geological context. Superb examples are found in diverse geological settings from pegmatites to Alpine clefts and hydrothermal veins. The silica minerals are chemically simple, yet structurally complicated. Several high temperature and high pressure polymorphs are known. In addition to the polymorphs of silica, this book treats related minerals, including: lechatelierite, opal, and two natural clathrates, chibaite and melanophlogite. After a brief introduction, the general treatment explains the chemistry and taxonomy of the group. A section on their formation and geochemistry describes the kinds of environments where these minerals are formed. Then, entries for each mineral provide locality information and full-color photos so that collectors can see what good specimens look like and which minerals one might expect to find in association with them. An extensive bibliography is also provided.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Collector's guide to silicates written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James R. Tindall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collector's Guide to Rocks & Minerals written by James R. Tindall and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilhelm Eitel
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323142273
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silicate Structures and dispersion system written by Wilhelm Eitel and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicate Science, Volume VI: Silicate Structures and Dispersoid Systems reviews the advances made in silicate research from 1960 through 1970, with emphasis on X-ray diffraction methods, their theory, and the refinements of special silicate structures, particularly of natural silicate minerals or of synthetic products. The Zolati systematics of silicate crystal structures are used in this treatise, along with the principle of a systematics after the "sharing coefficients." Comprised of three sections, this volume begins with an overview of the progress made in infrared and Raman spectroscopy as well as the Mössbauer nuclear paramagnetic resonance method. Advances in experimental techniques applicable to crystal structure problems and crystal chemistry are highlighted, together with research in isomorphism, isotypism, polymorphism, and the epitaxis phenomena. The next section deals with clay minerals and considers the refined physical-chemical methods used for their identification, chiefly by infrared spectroscopy. Structures, adsorption, and base exchange reactions of clay minerals with inorganic and organic compounds are analyzed. The final section is devoted to silica and silicate dispersoid systems and the many advances made in electron microscopy, especially in the Castaing electron microprobe method. This book will be of interest to mineralogists, chemists, and crystallographers.

Author : F. Liebau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642500765
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structural Chemistry of Silicates written by F. Liebau and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As natural minerals, silica and silicates constitute by far the largest part of the earth's crust and mantle. They are equally important as raw materials and as mass produced items. For this reason they have been the subject of scientific research by geoscientists as well as by applied scientists in cement, ceramic, glass, and other industries. Moreover, intensive fun damental research on silicates has been carried out for many years because silicates are, due to their enormous variability, ideally suited for the study of general chemical and crystallographic principles. Several excellent books on mineralogy and cement, ceramics, glass, etc. give brief, usually descriptive synopses of the structure of silicates, but do not contain detailed discussions of their structural chemistry. A number of monographs on special groups of silicates, such as the micas and clay min erals, amphiboles, feldspars, and zeolites have been published which con tain more crystal chemical information. However, no modern text has been published which is devoted to the structural chemistry of silicates as a whole. Within the last 2 decades experimental and theoretical methods have been so much improved to the extent that not only have a large number of silicate structures been accurately determined, but also a better under standing has been obtained of the correlation between the chemical composition of a silicate and its structure. Therefore, the time has been reached when a modern review of the structural chemistry of silicates has become necessary.

Author : Dana T. Griffen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silicate Crystal Chemistry written by Dana T. Griffen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on the principles of crystal chemistry and crystal structure as they apply to the major silicate groups. The text fulfills two principal needs by covering the systematics of the mineral groups that are of primary interest to mineralogists and petrologists, as well as the crystal chemical principles that govern the behavior of mineral groups. Students and teachers of graduate-level courses in mineralogy, petrology, and crystallography will find this an essential and useful volume.

Author : Wayne Alton Dollase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crystal Structures of Some Phases of Silica written by Wayne Alton Dollase and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: