Mineralogy, physical

T. S. Duffy and Y. Wang, in Ultrahigh Pressure Mineralogy Physics and Chemistry of the Earth s Deep Interior (R. J. Hemley ed.). Reviews in Mineralogy, Mineralog-ical Society of America, vol. 37, 1998, p. 425. 

Soon after this, King Charles III created for Chabaneau a public chair of mineralogy, physics, and chemistry at Madrid, lodged him in one of the royal palaces, and provided him with a valuable library and a luxurious laboratory (72, 73). 

Diagenesis (sensu lato) all the chemical, mineralogical, physical and biological changes undergone by the sediment after its initial deposition and during and after its lithification, exclusive of surficial alteration (weathering) and metamorphism. These processes occur under conditions of pressure and temperature that are usual at the Earth s surfaces and in the outer part of the Earth s crust. 

This equation is an ordinary equation of diffusion. The last fact is important for theoretical mineralogy. Physically such a transition responds to mineral transformation of swelling clays (smectites) into non-swelling clays under the exposure of rising pressure, because the transition of equation (36) into the equation of the diffusion opens possibilities for models of complex geological processes. 

Mineral name (IMA) (CAS RN) (Synonyms) (Etymology) (ICSD and PDF diffraction files numbers) Theoretical chemical formula, relative molecular mass ( C = 12), mass percentages, coordinence number, major impurities, Strunz s mineral class Crystal system, lattice parameters, Strukturbericht, Pearson symbol, (Z), point group, space group, structure type Optical properties s < II fe C) 3. Other relevant mineralogical, physical, and chemical properties with occurrence... 

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