The Stability of Minerals

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Price, Geoffrey D. (Editor), Ross, Nancy L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1992.
• Series: The Mineralogical Society Series ; 3
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geochemistry.; Mineral resources.; Mineralogy.; Earth Sciences.; Mineral Resources.
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30% discount for members of The Mineralogical Society of Britain and Ireland 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 supercomp...

Table of Contents:

• The stability of minerals: an introduction
• Bond topology, bond valence and structure stability
• Electronic paradoxes in the structures of minerals
• Lattice vibration and mineral stability
• Thermodynamics of phase transitions in minerals: a macroscopic approach
• The stability of modulated structures
• Thermochemistry of tetrahedrite-tennantite fahlores
• Thermodynamic data for minerals: a critical assessment
• The stability of clays.