Mineralogical Crystallography

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Research & information: general; anatomy; apatite; bioceramics; biomimetic synthesis; brushite; Cactaceae; calcium carbonate; calcium ferrite structure type; calcium oxalate; carbonation; cesium; coesite; complexity of crystal habits; crystal chemistry; crystal growth; crystal structure; crystallography; demesmaekerite; EDX spectroscopy; equation of state; Escherichia coli; evaporitic salt rock; FTIR spectrum; galenobismutite; guillemenite; haynesite; high pressure; high-temperature Raman; hot springs; hydrous aluminum chloroborate; hydroxy-hydrate; ionic substitutions; isobaric Grüneisen parameters; Kamchatka; Klebsiella pneumoniae; krasnoshteinite; lone electron pair; luminophore; Mars; merrillite; mesosiderite; meteorite; microporous crystalline material; mineral; mineral evolution; new mineral; octocalcium phosphate; OH-stretching modes; oxalate; pallasite; pathogen crystallization; Perm Krai; phosphate; polymorph; powder diffraction; precipitation; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; pyrite; Raman spectroscopy; renal stone; scanning electron microscopy; schoepite; selenate; selenite; silica; single crystal structure; single-crystal X-ray synchrotron diffraction; solid solutions; stanfieldite; Staphylococcus aureus; stem; strontium oxalate; structural complexity; struvite; sulfate; synthesis; topology; uranyl; vaterite; Verkhnekamskoe potassium salt deposit; weddellite; whewellite; whitlockite; X-ray diffraction; X-ray powder diffraction; zeolite-like borate
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• ISBN: 9783039369744; 9783039369751; books978-3-03936-975-1
• Access: Open Access

Crystallography remains, for mineralogy, one of the main sources of information on natural crystalline substances. A description of mineral species shape is carried out according to the principles of geometric crystallography; the crystal structure of minerals is determined using X-ray crystallography techniques, and physical crystallography approaches allow one to evaluate various properties of minerals, etc. However, the reverse comparison should not be forgotten as well: the crystallography science, in its current form, was born in the course of mineralogical research, long before preparative chemistry received such extensive development. It is worth noting that, even today, investigations of crystallographic characteristics of minerals regularly open up new horizons in materials science, because the possibilities of nature (fascinating chemical diversity; great variation of thermodynamic parameters; and, of course, almost endless processing time) are still not available for reproduction in any of the world's laboratories. This Special Issue is devoted to mineralogical crystallography, the oldest branch of crystallographic science, and aims to combine important surveys covering topics indicated in the keywords below.