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This volume addresses the fundamental factors that underlie our understanding of mineral behaviour and crystal chemistry - a timely topic given current advances in research into the complex behaviour of solids and supercomputing.
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The stability of minerals - an introduction, Nancy Ross and Geoffrey Price; bond topology, bond valence and structure stability, Frank Hawthorne; electronic paradoxes in the structures of minerals, Jeremy Burdett; lattice variation and mineral stability, Nancy Ross; thermodynamics of phase transitions in minerals - a macroscopic approach, Michael Carpenter; the stability of modulated structures, J.D.C. McConnell; thermochemistry of tetrahedrite-tennanite fahlores, Richard Sack; thermodynamic data for minerals - a critical account, Martin Engi; the stability of clays, Bruce Velde.
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Edited By: GD Price and NL Ross
384 pages, Line/tone illus
'Overall, this is an excellent volume... The real strength of [it] is that in a single volume it provides a convenient and wide-ranging summary of current developments in mineral energetics, from crystal chemistry to petrological applications. As such, it is to be warmly recommended for all Earth Science libraries.' Mineralogical Magazine