The "Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom" allows one to sort and search for minerals and gemstones by alphabetical, chemical group, color, streak, hardness, crystal group, elemental affiliations, and dana classification. Includes image galleries of rocks, minerals and gemstones: pictures accompanied ...

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... The condensation of vapor on the surface is accompanied by release of latent heat of condensation on the same crystal face. ...

Sounds accompany the discharges of electricity. A piezoelectric crystal is connected to a light bulb. When the crystal is pressed, the light flashes.

... Descriptors : *CRYSTALS, CRYSTAL STRUCTURE, MINERALS, CRYSTAL LATTICES, CRYSTAL SUBSTRUCTURE, PHASE STUDIES, SPINEL ...

... S. FUNDING NUMBERS U Crystal Chemistry of Ceramic/Mineral Systems 6. AUTHOR(S) ... Page 2. Crystal Chemistry of Ceramic/Mineral Systems ...

Hematite crystallizes in the rhombohedral system, and it has the same crystal structure as ilmenite and as corundum. Hematite is a mineral, colored black to ...

Backscattered electron imaging (BEI) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) were used to examine the effects of treatment with intermittent slow-release sodium fluoride (SRNaF) and continuous calcium citrate on bone architecture and crystallinity. Examination was performed in nondecalcified biopsies obtained from patients following up to four years of therapy (placebo or SRNaF) and compared to ...

A Raman scattering and X-ray diffraction study of the thermal decomposition of a naturally occurring, ettringite-group crystal is presented. Raman spectra, recorded with increasing temperature, indicate that the thermal decomposition begins at 55 �C, accompanied by dehydration of water molecules from the mineral. This is in contrast ...

... CRYSTALLIZATION, SALTS, CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION, CRYSTAL STRUCTURE, CALCITE, ARAGONITE, CARBONATES, PHOSPHATES ...

In this activity, students observe the process of mineral crystallization under a microscope and answer questions about what they see.

Admire an array of huge mineral crystals, including a gargantuan gypsum crystal from Mexico's Cave of Giants, home of the largest crystals ever found. ...

The geology of the Volkovsky deposit, the composition of its rocks, titanomagnetite and copper-titanomagnetite ores with accompanying noble-metal mineralization, and their formation conditions are considered. Special attention is paid to the recently revealed noble-metal mineralization and its attendant character in respect to ...

This illustrated, nine-part primer on crystallography and mineral crystal systems was developed by a professional geologist and long-time mineral collector. His objective is to bring a greater appreciation of natural mineral crystals and their forms by providing some background and ...

This page from the Smithsonian Education website is the introduction to a multi-page lesson plan on minerals, crystals, and gems. The site explains how minerals and crystals are formed and the role of symmetry in understanding crystal structure. Several images are also provided.

This activity can be used as the introduction for a unit on mineral or crystal structure. It requires the students to create shapes cooperatively and put them together. This is analogous to individual crystals forming or to minerals forming. They will understand that minerals are made up of ...

Students examine a number of key mineral properties and how they are displayed by different minerals. Mineral properties examined include crystal habit, cleavage, parting, fracture, hardness, tenacity, specific gravity, luster, color, and streak.

Intergrowth boundaries between mineral individuals in dunite of the Gal�moenan massif in Koryakia was studied in terms of crystal morphology, crystal optics, and ontogenesis. The results obtained allowed us to trace the staged formation of olivine and chromite and four generations of these minerals. Micro-and ...

Mineralization in UMR 106-01 osteoblastic cultures occurs within extracellular biomineralization foci (BMF) within 12 h after addition of ?-glycerol phosphate to cells at 64 h after plating. BMF are identified by their enrichment with an 85-kDa glycoprotein reactive with Maackia amurensis lectin. Laser Raman microspectroscopic scans were made on individual BMF at times ...

A comparison between tin-bearing granitoids in an anorogenic setting (Bushveld Complex) and an orogenic setting (Blue Tier Batholith, Tasmania) reveals a number of genetically important similarities. These include: in situ fractional crystallization characterised by marked decrease in Ba and Sr and increase in Rb; the accumulation of late melt in a sheet-like form near the ...

A concise country-by-country summary of the mineral industry of Africa is presented. Reserves, resources, role of the country in the world mineral supply, and developments in the mineral industries are reviewed. The data on each country are accompanied by a map showing mineral location and ...

To aid in interpreting data from Herschel Space Observatory Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS), we have collected mass absorption coefficient spectra in the wavelength range 15 to 250 micron of micron-sized powders for more than 140 mineral species representing various mineral groups. Mineral groups investigated ...

... STATE UNIV UNIVERSITY PARK COLL OF MINERAL INDUSTRIES. ... GLASS, CRYSTAL GROWTH, SILICATES, MINERALS, PEGMATITE. ...

Application of mineral geothermometers indicates crystallization of these rocks ... Cooling histories of lunar rocks based on opaque mineral geothermometers ...

... Descriptors : *CRYSTALS, *LASERS, *BERYL, *GEMS(MINERALS), MIRRORS, IONS, REPRINTS, OPTICS, EXCITATION, EFFICIENCY ...

This website details the symmetries and structure of minerals and crystals with pictures. The site provides excellent examples and background information.

This site offers an introduction to minerals, crystals and gems. Lesson plans involve creating a classroom exhibit and investigating rocks and minerals, watching crystals grow, and looking for minerals and mineral products (including a mineral scavenger ...

573-583. Minerals that form at or near the Earth's surfaceare products of chemical weathering, evaporation, authigenic crystallization, and bio-mineralization. ...

... 2 Crystallization from solutions con- (Figure 1). Sulfide minerals precipitated along cell walls ... ion in a mineral favors the formation of high-entropy ...

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From the San Diego Natural History Museum comes the Mineral Matters Kids' Habitat Web site. Visitors will learn how to identify minerals, create a rock and mineral collection, how to grow your own crystals at home, and explore some basic questions and answers about minerals.

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... to increased sweating and accompanying dermal mineral loss, including calcium loss. Literature on the effect of calcium lost through sweat on bone ...

... Descriptors : *ARSENIC SULFIDES, *LEAD SULFIDES, CRYSTAL STRUCTURE, FRANCE, TRANSLATIONS, MINERALS. ...

... and phosphorus. These minerals are combined in a crystal-like or latticework structure. Because of their unique structure, bones can bear ...

... Descriptors : (*CARBONATE MINERALS, DEFORMATION), COMPRESSIVE PROPERTIES, CRYSTAL STRUCTURE, PETROGRAPHY, STRAIN ...

... Strain Hardening of Latent Slip Systems in Zinc Crystals By ... Strain hardening which accompanies slip in a metal crystal is not limited ...

Petrology and oxide mineral chemistry are presented on 5 kimberlite dikes that are classified into three groups: (1) one dike is highly carbonated and highly oxidized (> MH) and is characterised by chlorite+Mn-titanomagnetite+rutile+hematite (after chlorite)+maghemite (after titanomagnetite), with ilmenite and perovskite being absent; (2) three dikes are typified by ...

The AFCRL mineral study determines deformational behavior in important rock-forming minerals as a function of their internal and external environment. Internal perfection of crystals is being determined by chemical analysis, thermoluminescence, optics, X-...

Minerals can be produced and deposited either by abiotic or biologic means. Regardless of their origin, mineral crystals reflect the environment conditions (e.g., temperature, pressure, chemical composition, and redox potential) present during crystal for...

A process for immobilizing high level radioactive waste (hlw) calcine comprises of the following steps: (1) mixing the hlw calcine with a mixture of oxides, the oxides in the mixture and the relative proportions thereof being selected so as to form a mixture which, when heated and then cooled, crystallizes to produce a mineral assemblage containing ...

This web page provides access to a constantly growing collection of mineral descriptions, images, and specimens. The user can search by mineral name, class, groupings - gemstones, birthstones, etc. - or full text. A photo of the mineral is then displayed, along with its name, chemistry, class, group, uses, and physical characteristics ...

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This paper has attempted to illustrate that certain aspects of capillary behavior, for example the efficiency with which a non-wetting phase can be withdrawn from a pore system on pressure reduction, can be explained in terms of observable differences in pore geometry. In a selected group of dolomites, the volume of mercury retained in the sample after pressure reduction (analogous to residual oil ...

Fluid behavior at high metamorphic grades becomes closely related to the formation and crystallization of anatectic silicate melts, which act as a temporary volatile reservoir. The volatiles are released when the melts crystallize during cooling following the peak of metamorphism. This study investigates the transport and degassing of volatiles by ...

The directory lists by county the names and addresses of mineral producers and properties in Utah. Within each county the producer or operator is referenced alphabetically by its primary commodity (metals, nonmetals, uranium coal, oil, or gas). Each mineral operation is identified on an accompanying county map.

This web page, hosted by Microscopy-UK, provides illustrations of flourescent minerals, each with accompanying text that shows how the color identifies the mineral. The site offers a brief explanation of flourescence and uses examples of calcite, willemite, and flourite to demonstrate this phenomenon. Numerous images, diagrams, and ...

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We present a detailed mineralogical and major- and trace-element study of pyroxenes in two Archean komatiitic flows in Alexo, Canada. The pyroxenes in spinifex-textured lavas commonly are zoned with cores of magnesian pigeonite and rims of augite. Concentrations of incompatible trace elements are low in pigeonite and jump to higher values in the augite mantles, a variation that can be modelled ...

IN the initial stages of the biomineralization of abalone shells, a primer layer of oriented calcite crystals grows on a nucleating protein sheet1,2. The deposition of this primer is followed by an abrupt transition to c-axis-oriented crystals of aragonite, another crystalline form of calcium carbonate. The formation of each of the two ...

Syllabus EAS 6221 - Mineral Surface Geochemistry 3 credit hours. No required textbook. (See of minerals and particles with emphasis on structure, sorption processes, crystal growth and dissolution nearly current) research dealing with mineral surface structure and reactivity. This can be drawn from

The Rotoiti (~120 km3) and Earthquake Flat (~10 km3) eruptions occurred in close succession from the Okataina Volcanic Centre at ~50 ka. While accessory mineral geochronology points to long periods of crystallization prior to eruption (104-105 years) and separate thermal histories for the magmas, little was known about the rates and processes of the final ...

A method for estimating the amount of assimilation accompanying fractional crystallization in andesitic systems has been developed using the Neumann et al. (GCA 6, 90, 1954) equation for crystallization accompanied by resorption. This expression reduces to the one presented by DePaolo (EPSL 53, 180, 1981) after the ...

The 1.6 Ma Otowi Member of the Bandelier Tuff consists of ~500 km3 of mineralogically, chemically and isotopically zoned high-silica rhyolite. The melt phase was saturated with trace amounts of zircon, chevkinite, britholite and allanite, and upward whole-pumice elemental enrichments and depletions in the tuff are predicted by crystallization-differentiation involving an ...

This is the hoempage for a course on mineralogy at Auburn University. This course is designed as an introduction to the study of crystals, minerals, and assemblages of minerals (rocks). Specific goals of the course include familiarizing the student with the common, rock-forming minerals, how to identify samples of ...

The method of growth of an individual crystal determines its internal structure, which in turn characterizes the quality of the crystal. This is especially important for crystals of minerals that are used directly in technology. Tourmaline is one such min...

This site, maintained by the Geosciences Department at the University of Arizona, contains animated gif files of common mineral crystals. The movies show crystal structures evolving as a function of pressure, temperature, chemistry, or orientation. The movies are an excellent aid for visualizing the structure of various ...

Uranium mineralization is present at many places along the 200 km long Singhbhum copper belt, but the mineralization is relatively concentrated at the central part of it. The belt is characterized by many shear zone features, such as mylonites, phyllonites, and L-S type of structures and of course, copious metasomatism. Country rocks are basic schists, ...

Seafloor rocks were affected by hydrothermal alteration and low temperature seawater weathering display various elemental behaviors, necessitating detailed investigations to evaluate primary bulk rock compositions without the effect of elemental behaviors during alteration. Seafloor alteration entails primary minerals being changed into hydrous minerals. ...

To obtain comparative data on the variation in gamma-ray intensity accompanying possible variation in the diameter of small-diameter diamond-drill holes, six drill holes in the Jo Dandy area, Montrose County, Colo., were caliper logged using a well-bore caliper recently developed by the U. S. Bureau of Mines. The caliper logs show that within radioactive ore zones the ...

Fragments of rock crystal and optical quartz glasses were cut and ground to 20 x 20 x 4 mm disks and irradiated with Co/sup 60/ gamma rays at a dose rate of 2x 10/sup 3/ r. Since the irradiation lasted 10 hr, the total dose was about 2 x 10/sup 6/ r. The irradiated specimens were brought immediately in contact with the AGFA spectrographic plate, Rapid ...

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The crystal structure, chemical composition, and rare earth content of yttrium-- beryllium minerals of the datolite group were investigated. (C. E.S.)

Jan 8, 2003 ... Uranium, thorium, and helium ratios of apatites separated from ... SOLID EARTH > ROCKS/MINERALS >MINERALS/CRYSTALS >APATITES [Definition] ...

... surrounds and supports the rods is formed by minerals (including calcium and phosphorous) from the blood that crystallize and surround the rods. These minerals give the bones strength while the collagen rods ...

Zeolites, rigid crystals of silicate minerals with a honeycomb- like ... The ions can be readily exchanged for ions of other types of minerals when in an ...

Website with alphabetical listing of minerals with pictures and properties. The database allows search by name, class, and by gemstones. There is also a bibliography and crystal information.

Mar 2, 2004 ... Mineral Tells Tale of Watery Past .... This feature is consistent with sulfate minerals that crystallize within a rock matrix, either pushing the matrix ...

Nov 1, 2006 ... The large crystals are olivine and the groundmoss minerals are pyrexenes, feldspar and metal compounds - minerals which make up the bulk of ...

M�ssbauer spectroscopy parameters for phosphate minerals are related to phosphate structure groups and the local environment around the Fe cations.

Jun 16, 2011 ... Description: We examined the efficacy of termiticidal baits comprised of powdered acellulose and a mineral insecticide, cryolite crystals, ...

Natural graphite is a mineral form of elemental carbon crystallized predominantly in the hexagonal system. Silicate minerals varying in kind and percentage are usually associated with graphite ore. The uses of natural graphite are dependent upon its physi...

Aug 30, 2011... the mineral and any variations due to zoning or heterogeneities in the crystals. ... Ecology of a Hawaiian lava cave microbial mat ...

... properties match no known minerals, but its ... of BeO crystals in the mineral swedenborgite [NaSb ... uranium, beryllium, plutonium, thorium and titanium ...

The Bjerkreim-Sokndal (BKSK) layered intrusion belongs to the Rogaland anorthosite province in southern Norway. The northwestern part of BKSK consists of a ca. 6 km-thick Layered Series, made up of macrocyclic units (MCU) arranged in a syncline. Each MCU, which resulted from the crystallization of a major-magma influx, can be subdivided into a series of cumulate zones. The MCU ...

Students dissolve selected salts and other compounds in water, let the water evaporate for about three weeks, and examine the crystals that grow. Students then draw crystal shapes and discuss the experiment. Discussion can include why and how crystals grow from solutions, why some minerals dissolve well and others ...

... tiny quartz-like crystals sprinkled in young planetary systems. The crystals , which are types of silica minerals called cristobalite and tridymite. ...

... us to grow a titanium-doped gem crystal ... transmission of a titanium crystal laser (1 ... LASERS, *PULSES, *TITANIUM, *DOPING, *GEMS(MINERALS ...

... Title : The Crystal Structure of Illite/Smectite. ... Keywords: X ray diffraction, Illite smectite, Fundamental particles, Clay minerals, Mixed layered clays. ...

Nov 11, 2008 ... Cristobalite, which is shown here in this magnified view, ... The crystals, which are types of silica minerals called cristobalite and ...

May 26, 2011 ... Tiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, according to observations from NASA's Spitzer ...

... tiny quartz-like crystals sprinkled in young planetary systems. The crystals , which are types of silica minerals called cristobalite and tridymite. ...

Oct 20, 2005 ... This artist's concept shows microscopic crystals in the dusty disk ... The crystals, made up of a green mineral found on Earth called ...

This tutorial provides a basic discussion about crystallography. Text and diagrams explain how crystals are measured, classified, and described, and point out that minerals can be identified by their crystal shapes and growth habits.

Zeolites, which are mineral crystals of aluminosilicates, ... Zeolites are important for many industrial processes, and are used as commercial ion ...

One method to simulate the long-term exposure of soil to acid rain involves the addition of single doses of concentrated acid. The inhibition of carbon mineralization accompanied by a stimulation of nitrogen mineralization may result from this severe, unnatural treatment. The present study was designed to determine whether the ...

It is anticipated that some of the hydrogen detected at near-equatorial latitudes on Mars is bound as H2O or OH within the crystal structures of hydrated minerals (e.g., hydrated sulfate minerals and smectite clay minerals). Under water-limited conditions, these materials represent a potential source of ...

On the basis of chemical and x-ray analyses the crystal chemical nature of complex nitrides formed in the system Ga--B-N was examined. It was established that in the system Ga--B--N interaction is accompanied by formation of solid solutions based on GaN) with finite solubility. The chemical stability of the nitride Ga/sub 0.28/B/sub 0.85/N in ...

Elastic recoil detection (ERD) analysis was used in conjunction with Rutherford backscattering (RBS) analysis to determine depth profiles of hydrogen, silicon, aluminum and calcium in labradorite crystals reacted under various pH conditions. The inventory of hydrogen in the mineral is strongly affected by solution pH. Hydrogen extensively infiltrates the ...

Four samples of cummingtonite-grunerite series in various crystallization habits were tested in vitro. The cytotoxicity to Chinese hamster ovary cells and hemolysis to sheep erythrocytes was inversely proportional to the structural faults and surface defects of the minerals. At a...

This was a project to investigate the crystal chemistry of OH and H(sub 2)O substitution in silicate minerals by use of X-ray and neutron diffraction methods combined with IR spectroscopy and to interpret and generalize the results using an electrostatic ...

aa -- A basaltic lava with a rough, jagged surface. achondrite -- A stony meteorite, coarsely crystallized, with sizable fragments of various minerals ...

... investigations. These crystals could be naphthalene or anthracene or an inorganic mineral such as aragonite. ... Stilbene 30491 Aragonite 10481 ...

The crystals, which are types of silica minerals called cristobalite and tridymite. Target: Mission: Spitzer Space Telescope ...

plutonic rocks cool underground and develop coarser crystals. Y Rocks are classified by their mineral contents or their chemistry. ...

... Report Date : 01 FEB 1962. Pagination or Media Count : 13. Descriptors : *MINERALS, ZINC COMPOUNDS, SILICATES, HYDROXIDES, CRYSTALS ...

The crystals, which are types of silica minerals called cristobalite and tridymite. Target: Mission: Spitzer Space Telescope ...

The crystals, which are types of silica minerals called cristobalite and tridymite. .... Cracking the Code of Faraway Worlds ...

The types of cooling histories necessary to produce the porphyritic texture and the observed mineral

... arid granites, sandstones, and limestones, is caused when salt crystals pry apart the mineral grains (Mustoe, 1982). In ... ...

... China. Descriptors : (*GEOLOGY, ABSTRACTS), CHINA, MINERALS, PALEONTOLOGY, CRYSTALS, BIBLIOGRAPHIES. ...

A composite epizonal stock of biotite granite has intruded a diverse assemblage of metamorphic rocks in the Serpentine Hot Springs area of north-central Seward Peninsula, Alaska. The metamorphic rocks include amphibolite-facies orthogneiss and paragneiss, greenschist-facies fine-grained siliceous and graphitic metasediments, and a variety of carbonate rocks. Lithologic units within the metamorphic ...

The Khaluta carbonatite deposit located in the western Transbaikal region was formed during the Late Mesozoic rifting in the southern framework of the Siberian Craton. Carbonatite is associated with shonkinite and syenite and is accompanied by fenitization. The composition of mica in more than 160 samples of country rocks, carbonatites, silicate rocks, and fenites was studied. ...

This module introduces students to minerals, crystals, and gems by using pictures and discussions of some of the extraordinary specimens residing in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. It includes three lessons in which they draw pictures of specimens, grow their own crystals of magnesium sulfate, and perform a scavenger ...

northern Nevada By Mark J. Mihalasky and Lorre A. Moyer 2004 This report describes the origin, generation, and format of tract map databases for deposit types that accompany the...

The report is comprised of a geologic map and accompanying descriptive text highlighting structural geology, mineralization, and geothermal resources. (ERA citation 12:040731)

The report is comprised of a geologic map and accompanying descriptive text highlighting structural geology, mineralization, and geothermal resources. (ACR)

The antimicrobial activity of two mineral oils, avitol and salidol, in their normal state and in polymerized form was studied. The polymerization is accompanied by a few changes in the properties of these oils, such as the increase in the density, tempera...

This website, from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), gives a description of minerals and the growth of crystals. The site offers various links with examples of different compositions and classifications of common minerals. The site provides three different levels of explanation--beginner, intermediate, and ...

This book covers oxide minerals under the following topics: oxygen fugacity and its petrologic importance; crystal chemistry of oxides and oxyhydroxides; petrogenetic indicators; oxygen barometry of spinel peridotites; iron-titanium oxides in igneous rocks; oxide minerals in metamorphic rocks; and magnetic petrology.

Electron microprobe mineral analysis guide is a compilation of X-ray tables and spectra recorded from various mineral matrices. Spectra were obtained using electron microprobe, equipped with LiF geared, curved crystal X-ray spectrometers, utilizing typica...

The minerals mirabilite and thenardite differ only in number of waters of crystallization, and may easily change from one state to the other. The identification of the minerals in airborne dust by infrared absorption spectroscopy and the rapidity of the t...

The occurrence of halogen-bearing fluids in magmatic systems has been frequently recognized from fluid inclusion studies in volcanoes chiefly erupting evolved products (e.g., trachytes, rhyolites), but their role in basaltic magmas has been comparatively less investigated. Recent findings of F-bearing mineral phases, namely fluorophlogopite and fluorapatite, in a benmoreite ...

This website contains a set of lessons on mineral identification. Upon completing this exercise, the student will be able to identify many of the common minerals by using the following physical properties: color, streak, luster, cleavage/fracture, hardness, crystal shape, and specific gravity. Teachers will need sets of ...

This database includes the crystal structure for every mineral published in the American Mineralogist, The Canadian Mineralogist, European Journal of Mineralogy and Physics, and Chemistry of Minerals. Data is now being imported from Acta Crystallographica as well. The database is maintained under the care of the Mineralogical Society ...

Two hundred and eight potassium-argon age determinations carried out on Canadian rocks and minerals are reported. Each age determination is accompanied by a description of the rock and mineral concentrate used; brief interpretative comments regarding the ...

The synthesis of Magnesium, Nickel, and Cobalt-chrysotiles was obtained by known methods, and of Iron-chrysotile by two new methods. Mixed crystals of these were synthesized and shown to be in fact mixed crystals of chrysotiles by X-ray, infrared, and ele...

Cultured quartz crystal production and consumption decreased slightly in 1990 after 3 years of growth. Consumption of domestic lascas as feedstock for cultured quartz crystal decreased also. The single domestic producer of lascas, the raw material from wh...

Cultured quartz crystal production was unchanged, and consumption increased in 1991 from levels recorded in 1990. Production and sales of domestic lascas as feedstock for cultured quartz crystal was higher in 1991, and reported consumption was slightly lo...

Cultured quartz crystal production and consumption increased in 1989 for the third consecutive year, and consumption of domestic lascas as feedstock for cultured quartz crystal increased also. The single domestic producer of lascas, the raw material from ...

These lab activities are designed to exhibit how crystals grow. Students will distinguish living from nonliving matter, measure crystal growth using the metric system, explain three industrial uses of minerals, and learn to take notes from lecture by filling in an outline of main points covered.

other crystals are unencapsulated. To avoid their degradation by humidity in the atmo- sphere the original proposal to run the crystals in pure mineral oil [16] because of an observed slow degradation example, chiller failure), the variation of crystal temperature exceeds the pre- defined limit, the data

are unencapsulated. To avoid their degradation by humidity in the atmosphere, the unencapsulated crystals have been the crystals in pure mineral oil [16] because of an observed slow degradation of one of the crystals in a 10 mm thick solid PTFE (polytetra uoroethylene) re ector cage and is coupled to light guides. ...

The first data on the mineral composition and formation conditions of manganese ore at the Chapsordag and Malosyrsky deposits in the Askiz ore district of Khakassia are integrated and systematized. The detailed mineralogical mapping of the deposits has been carried out. The identification of minerals and examination of the ore microstructure were performed ...

This website provides an easy-to-understand introduction to the basics of optical mineralogy. Topics include the polarized light microscope, mineral shape and cleavage, relief, color and pleochroism, interference colors, extinction angles, twinning, opacity, vibration directions and mineral identification. The site features short, clear descriptions ...

The behavior of magnetite, hematite, limonite, siderite, pyrite, and covellite was studied during leaching by sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and sulfuric acid with manganese dioxids. The solvent concentration varied from 1 to 400 g/ liter. The results of chemical analyses of the tested minerals are tabulated. The mineral grains were 0.15 mm; all ...

Research in the physics, chemistry, and technology of liquid crystals (LCs) is alive and well, as demonstrated by the vitality of this recent LC symposium and the accompanying volume. While symposia focused on liquid crystal (LC) materials scienc have a s...

A method based on the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) for measuring the sessile contact angles and surface energies of liquid air and liquid liquid interfaces is described. The method involves measurement of the frequency change accompanying the introdu...

Attention is focused on the analysis of results previously obtained in the theory of the coherent phenomena accompanying resonance interaction of Moessbauer radiation with crystals. Specific sections include: stimulated radiation of gamma-quanta in a crys...

Mineralized collagen fibrils constitute a basic structural unit of collagenous mineralized tissues such as dentin and bone. Understanding of the mechanisms of collagen mineralization is vital for development of new materials for the hard tissue repair. We carried out bio-inspired mineralization of reconstituted ...

This site contains 93 mineral photographs. It consists of a list containing the item number, mineral name and type of image. Users can click on the mineral name to view a good-sized picture, or on JPEG to view a larger image. Some minerals have more than one photograph in order to show different ...

This interactive slide show of common rocks and minerals allows students to choose from two sets of minerals and click on a thumbnail to see a larger photograph with a full description of the mineral including color, streak, hardness, cleavage/fracture, and chemical composition. Also included are its use and where it is found. The ...

This directory provides a listing of mineral species based on Dana's New Mineralogy, in which a number is assigned to each class based on a combination of chemistry and crystal structure. Clicking on each class heading provides access to a list of each mineral that conforms to that class. Each mineral name is a ...

This is a large database of minerals that can be sorted either alphabetically or arranged systematically. Users can access minerals by name, elements, sulfides, halides, oxides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, silicates, organic minerals, or by variety. Once located, the properties of the mineral are displayed, ...

The kinetics of CaCO3 mineralization was studied by SANS in a 0.1M aqueous CaCl2 solution in the presence of the protein ovalbumin found in chicken eggs. As the scattering from the protein and the mineral was observed within different Q regimes the evolution of the protein and mineral could be followed independently. It is observed ...

CCMR Educational Programs Title: Mineral Properties and Identification Date Created: July 20, 2006. Teacher Notes 3. Class Notes 4. Mineral Identification Lab 5. Station Sheets 6. Acknowledgements Equipment/Materials List: Mineral Class Notes Copy of Mineral Identification Lab (1 per student) Jewelry and ...

Composites of fibronectin/mineral and osteogenic growth peptide/mineral were synthesized on calcium phosphate coated substrates immersed in Dulbecco's phosphate-buffered saline solution containing biomolecules. The kinetics of coprecipitation for two biomolecules was similar, and the biomolecules participated in the formation of the ...

Complex and protracted crystallization histories over geologic timescales are recorded in accessory minerals (e.g., zircon, allanite). Although magmatic crystallization was traditionally assumed to occur essentially instantaneously for the purposes of interpreting mineral geochronometers with low absolute time ...

This report deals with secondary geochemical dispersion in a subarctic environment (Ilimaussaq Complex, south Greenland) of uranium and accompanying elements around a U deposit in which the refractory mineral steenstrupine is the main U-bearing mineral. W...

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The Kentucky rocks highlighted on this website are chiefly sedimentary, such as limestone and dolostone, since sedimentary rocks cover approximately 99 percent of the state. You will find an extensive list of minerals and mineral groups, such as oxides or halides, and mineral property descriptions that cover hardness, cleavage, color, ...

Studies of the Mechanism of a Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Reversible Dehydration of a Copper single while the structure is dehydrated in steps accompanied by distortions of the framework and repositioning of the water molecules and chlorine atoms. The dehydrated compounds are acentric and have two

Every nonlinear optical laser frequency conversion process is accompanied by the crystal heating due to the absorption of some part of the radiation energy. Optical absorption coefficients and internal crystal temperature distribution during interaction with the high-power laser radiation are directly determined from modelling the ...

A process is disclosed for immobilizing high level waste (Hlw) sludge containing aluminium and/or iron compounds. It comprises the steps of: (1) mixing the sludge with a mixture of oxides, the oxides in said mixture and the relative proportions thereof being selected so as to form a mixture when heated at temperatures between 800* and 1400* C. Crystallizes to produce a ...

This activity introduces students to the idea that crystals 'grow' (crystallize or precipitate) and that minerals or rocks also form this way, providing a very general idea of the nature of magma (molten material that eventually crystallizes into igneous rocks). Using solutions mixed by the teacher, they will ...

Many biomineralization processes involve the sequestering of ions by cells and their translocation through the cells to the final deposition site. In many invertebrate crystallization pathways the cells deposit an initial highly disordered mineral phase with intracellular vesicles, and this mineral is subsequently transported into the ...

We documented a specific method for combining calcium ions and alginate molecules slowly and continuously in the mineralization system for the purpose of understanding the mediating function of alginate on the crystallization of calcium carbonate. The alginate was involved in the nucleation and the growth process of CaCO3. The crystal ...

Knowledge of elastic properties of the mantle candidate minerals at high pressure-temperature conditions as well as their variations with chemical composition are required to better constrain the mantle mineralogy. Orthopyroxene (Opx) is one of the major minerals in the upper mantle and can contain 2-11 wt% Al2O3. There is still a lack of knowledge on the ...

, are minerals: steel, plastic, sugar, table salt, mercury, ice, coal, sea shell, obsidian, mica, chalk, coral of either Mg or Fe (or one of each) for every one Si atom and every four O atoms. Characteristic Crystal are __________________. The crystal structure of any mineral is a unique characteristic of that ...

It is difficult to prove the presence of molecular H2 and reduced C in minerals containing dissolved H2 and CO2. A technique was developed which unambiguously shows that minerals grown in viciously reducing environments contain peroxy in their crystal str...

This database provides access to information on every crystal structure published in the American Mineralogist, the Canadian Mineralogist, European Journal of Mineralogy, and Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, as well as selected datasets from other journals. The data are searchable by mineral name, author, chemistry, cell parameters ...

The South Mountain Batholith (SMB) of southwestern Nova Scotia (Canada) is a Late Devonian (~375 Ma) composite intrusion, which crops over an area of about 7,300 km2. This peraluminous granitoid body consists of rocks ranging from granodiorite through monzogranite and leucomonzogranite to leucogranite that locally host greisen tin-base metal mineralization. K-feldspar displays ...

Minerals 4 Kids contains four Web-based activities offered for K-12 Education by the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA). These activities are entitled: Minerals in Your House, Mineral Groups, Mineral Properties, and All About Crystals. Also included are links to Mineral ...

Inesite is a fairly uncommon mineral that occasionally forms, pink, orange or red to rose colored, triclinic specimens. It is often mistaken for rhodochrosite because of its rose color and slants of the crystals. However, rhodochrosite's crystals have six faces while inesite's crystals only have one steeply slanted ...

This table summarizes the 32 crystal classes by crystal system and class name, including symmetry elements. Clicking on each system or class heading provides information on each class within the system, including axes of rotation, symmetry planes, center, and Hermann-Maugin symbols. There is also an illustration, paper models that can be downloaded, ...

Crystal Size Distributions (CSDs) and mineral geochemistry are presented for ilmenite crystals in a Type B2 (70275,35) lunar sample, and two Type C (74255,55 and 74275,312) lunar samples.

Carbonation of Mg-rich minerals offers an intriguing candidate carbon sequestration process technology, which can provide large-scale CO{sub 2} disposal. Such disposal bypasses many long-term storage problems by (i) providing containment in the form of mineral carbonates that have proven stable over geological time, (ii) generating only environmentally ...

The effect of different doses of mineral nitrogen on the nitrogen-fixing activity of lupine nodules during vegetation was studied. It was shown that 0.5 of the dose of mineral nitrogen had an inhibitory effect only in the initial period of development of the nodules, whereas full and double doses of mineral nitrogen inhibited nitrogen ...

Natural gas hydrate is a methane-bearing form of ice which occurs in permafrost and continental slope settings. Geochemical processes associated with gas hydrate formation lead to the growth of iron sulphides which have a geophysically measurable magnetic signature. Detailed magnetic investigation and complementary petrological observations were undertaken on unconsolidated sediments from three ...

The aluminum silicates, mullite and sillimanite are fundamental raw minerals for the refractory industry and ceramics. Shock compression curves of these materials indicate phase transitions above about 30 GPa. Large volume decrease accompanied with the phase transitions have been attributed to disproportionation to alumina and silica. However, detailed ...

On the basis of chemical and x-ray analyses the crystal chemical nature of complex nitrides formed in the system Al--B--N was examined. It was established that in the system Al--B--N interaction is accompanied by formation of solid solutions (based on AlN) with finite solubility. The chemical stability of the complex nitride Al/sub 1.05/B/sub ...

Mineral-physics data of SiO2, MgSiO3, and MgO under static compression, together with the physical theories of melting and structural changes in liquid, suggest that the density of silicate melts does not exceed that of crystalline assemblages with the same chemical composition at the pressure range of the deep mantle. Because drastic structural changes ...

The Davis Lake pluton (DLP, 800 km2) of southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada, part of the large peraluminous South Mountain batholith of ca. 380 Ma (U/Pb zircon, Ar/Ar mica), consists of granite and subordinate topaz-muscovite leucogranite that hosts greisen tin-base metal mineralization. A new Pb-Pb isochron age for leucogranite from the most evolved part of the DLP indicates a ...