Minerals, systematics

Considerable effort has been devoted to finding alternative fibers or minerals to replace asbestos fibers ia their appHcations. Such efforts have been motivated by various reasons, typically, avadabihty and cost, and more recendy, health concerns. During Wodd War I, some countries lost access to asbestos fiber suppHes and had to develop substitute materials. Also, ia the production of fiber reiaforced cement products, many developiug countries focused on alternatives to asbestos fibers, ia particular on cellulose fibers readily available locally at minimal cost. Siace the 1980s however, systematic research has been pursued ia several iudustrialized countries to replace asbestos fibers ia all of their current appHcations because of perceived health risks. 

Many of the most important naturally occurring minerals and ores of the metallic elements are sulfides (p. 648), and the recovery of metals from these ores is of major importance. Other metal sulfides, though they do not occur in nature, can be synthesized by a variety of preparative methods, and many have important physical or chemical properties which have led to their industrial production. Again, the solubility relations of metal sulfides in aqueous solution form the basis of the most widely used scheme of elementary qualitative analysis. These various more general considerations will be briefly discussed before the systematic structural chemistry of metal sulfides is summarized. 

As a rule of thumb, 50 to 55 percent of coal can be extracted using continuous mining. To improve this extraction ratio, a pillar-recovery process usually is applied when mining reaches the end of the panel and the direction of the mining is reversed. The continuous miner mines into the pillars, recovering as much coal as possible, as the roof is allowed to systematically collapse. Usually this can increase the extraction ratio by up to 5 percent. 

Chapin, F.S. (1980). The mineral nutrition of wild plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 11, 233-60. 

One major prerequisite for the maintenance of health is that there be optimal dietary intake of a number of chemicals the chief of these are vitamins, certain amino acids, certain fatty acids, various minerals, and water. Because much of the subject matter of both biochemistry and nutrition is concerned with the smdy of various aspects of these chemicals, there is a close relationship between these two sciences. Moreover, more emphasis is being placed on systematic attempts to maintain health and forestall disease, ie, on preventive medicine. Thus, nutritional approaches to—for example—the prevention of atherosclerosis and cancer are receiving increased emphasis. Understanding nutrition depends to a great extent on a knowledge of biochemistry. 

Sulfur isotopic data of separated pyrite as the commonest sulfide mineral (Kajiwara, 1971 Kajiwara and Date, 1971) show different values for the three sub-types of Horikoshi and Shikazono (1978). The values of pyrite in the C sub-type deposits are higher than the values of pyrite from the Y and B sub-types. The values of pyrite from the Y sub-type seem to be slightly higher than those from the B sub-type. Kajiwara and Date (1971) are of a different opinion the values from the Kosaka district are higher than those in the Hanaoka district, because all sulfur isotopic data from the C sub-type were obtained in the Kosaka district. The sulfur isotopic data on the obtained Uwamuki deposits of the B sub-type in the Hanaoka district indicate systematic decrease in 8 S passing from the yellow ore (4-7%o) to the black siliceous ore (4-5%c) (Bryndzia et al., 1983). Kajiwara and Date s data (1971) include three values of pyrite in the Doyashiki deposit of C sub-type in the Hanaoka district. The main Doyashiki... 

Spinels. There are limited experimental data on uranium and thorium partitioning between magnetite and melt (Nielsen et al. 1994 Blundy and Brooker 2003). Both studies find U and Th to be moderately incompatible. Blundy and Brooker s results for a hydrous dacitic melt at 1 GPa and 1025°C give Du and D h. of approximately 0.004. The accuracy of these values is compromised by the very low concentrations in the crystals and the lack of suitable SIMS secondary standards for these elements in oxide minerals. Nonetheless, these values are within the range of Djh of magnetites at atmospheric pressure 0.003-0.025 (Nielsen et al. 1994). It is difficult to place these values within the context of the lattice strain model, firstly because there are so few systematic experimental studies of trace element partitioning into oxides and secondly because of the compositional diversity of the spinels and their complex intersite cation ordering. 

Further advances in the interpretation of mineral data could come from in situ analyses (unfortunately only possible presently on U-Th rich accessory minerals like zircon), or from detailed studies of particularly large phenocrysts, whose successive growth zones could be sampled (e g., through microdrillings) and analyzed. Ra measurements in such crystals could allow a direct determination of their growth rates. A systematic study of successive, well-dated eruptions of a given volcano, combining U-series measurements in both whole rocks and minerals, should also help with the interpretation of mineral data. 

Christensen JN, DePaolo DJ (1993) Time scales of large volume silicic magma systems Sr isotopic systematics of phenocrysts and glass from the Bishop Tuff, Long Valley, California. Contrib Mineral Petrol 113 100-114... 

Hemond C, Hofmann AW, Heusser G, Condomines M, Rhodes JM, Garcia MO (1994) U-Th-Ra systematics in Kilauea and Manna Loa basalts. Contrib Mineral Petrol 116 163-180 Hirose K (1997) Partial melt compositions of carbonated peridohte at 3 GPa and role of CO2 in alkali basalt magma generation. Geophys Res Lett 24 2837-2840... 

Tinner S, Foden J (2001) U, Th and Ra disequilibria, Sr, Nd and Pb isotope and trace element variations in Sunda arc lavas predominance of a subducted sediment component. Contrib Mineral Petrol 142 43-57 Turner S, Evans P, Hawkesworth C, (2001) Ultra-fast source-to-surface movement of melt at island arcs from Ra- °Th systematics. Science 292 1363-1366... 

Figure 3. Systematics of radionuclides along the series. The major and minor fluxes to each nuclide can be readily seen from the arrows showm The behavior of each nuclide can be evaluated by considering the surface and groundwater populations individually, or together as the mobile pool. Nuclides in the decay series within the host rock minerals supply atoms at the surface and in the groundwater by recoil during a decay, so that there are greater abundances in the mobile pool of nuchdes progressively along the series, a decay of nuclides at the surface injects atoms back into the minerals as well as into groundwater.

Several supported metalhc catalysts were evalrrated for the selective hydrogenolysis of glycerol. Initially, the reactions were performed tmder acidic conditions in order to promote the formation of 1,3-PDO. Rutheniirm-based catalysts were found to be the most active catalysts but significant amount of tmdesired products resulted from C-C cleavages were detected. On the contrary, Rh/C catalysts were found selective to C-O cleavages. As far as the selectivity to 1,3-PDO was concerned, we previously reported that the addition of iron salts in the medium improved the l,3-PDO/l,2-PDO selectivity (11). A systematic study on the influence of additives was therefore carried out in the present investigation. Mineral and organic acids were evaluated for this purpose (Table 35.1). 

These values were used to correct the intensities for nine representative data sets, organic crystals, organometallics and minerals, and the data compared with respect to systematic absences and space group assignment (i) with no corrections to the data, (ii) with an absorption correction (SADABS [9]), (iii) with only 1/2 correction, and (iv) with both absorption and X/2 correction. Analogously four different refinements per sample were carried out based on F2. 

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