APPLICATIONS IN MINERAL PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY

In this book we have concentrated up to this point on the experimental and theoretical methods involved in determining the electronic structure of minerals and related materials, and on the applications of these methods to major groups of compounds such as the oxides, silicates, carbonates, borates, and sulfides. It is now appropriate to turn to more general applications in the study of minerals. 

These three major areas represent applications of the theoretical (and experimental) methods discussed in earlier chapters to problems of importance in mineral and crystal chemistry, in mineral physics and geophysics, and in industrial mineralogy and materials science. They are illustrative of the value of these methods, but are far from being a comprehensive account. 

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Burns, Roger G (Roger George), 1937-Mineralogical applications of crystal field theory/Roger G. Bums. - 2nd ed. p. cm. - (Cambridge topics in mineral physics and chemistry 5)... 

Hayes, K. F. Katz, L. E. 1996. Application of X-ray absorption spectroscopy for surface complexation modelling of metal ion sorption. In Brady, P. V. (ed) Physics and Chemistry of Mineral Surfaces. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 147-223. 

Chapters 2 and 3 contain discussion on the theoretical foundations of hardness. The extensive classical theory of crystal strength has been omitted intentionally, since this subject is covered in most monographs within the scope of solid body physics and chemistry. Chapter 3 is based on the study of Povarennykh (1963), Hardness of Minerals, which most appropriately emphasizes the elements of the crystallomechanical theory of hardness that specifically find application in practice. 

V. Gun ko, R. Leboda, V. Turov, V. Zarko, A. Chuiko, Oxide, carhon, and carhon/mineral adsorbents for toxic, explosive, and narcotic compounds - synthesis, properties, and applications, in Pure and Apphed Surface Chemistry and Nanomaterials for Human Life and Environmental Protection, Proceedings of NATO ARW, (Kiev, Ukraine, September 14-17, 2005, NATO Science Series II Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Springer, edited by J. P. Blitz and V. M. Gun ko). 

Since the 1960s natural surface films ( sea slicks ), that tend to exhibit thicknesses of one molecule only, have been in the focus of interdisciplinary research that required input by various disciplines such as oceanography, meteorology, physics and chemistry. Albeit the thickness of such monomolecular surface films is small compared to that of mineral oil films their wave damping capability and, thus, their influence on air-sea interactions is comparable. Consequently, they are still often mixed up with mineral oil films ( oil spills ), particularly in the Same of remote sensing applications. It is the aim of the present book to provide a scientific basis that allows avoiding such misinterpretation in the future. 

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