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Mineralogy is a
subject of
geology specializing in the
scientific study of the chemistry,
crystal structure, and
physical (including optical) properties...
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Lustre (British English) or
luster (American English; see
spelling differences) is the way
light interacts with the
surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral...
- In
mineralogy,
tenacity is a mineral's
behavior when
deformed or broken. The
mineral breaks or
powders easily. Most ionic-bonded
minerals are brittle....
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Magnetic mineralogy is the
study of the
magnetic properties of minerals. The
contribution of a
mineral to the
total magnetism of a rock
depends strongly...
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Russian Mineralogical Society (RMS) is a
public scientific organization uniting specialists and
scientific groups working in the
field of
mineralogy and adjacent...
- The
Mineralogical Record is a
mineralogy magazine,
published in the
United States by The
Mineralogical Record Inc. with a
periodicity of six
issues a year...
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infrared spectroscopy,
Raman spectroscopy, and SEM-EDS or
automated mineralogy processes.
These methods can be
augmented by
polarized light microscopy...
- In crystallography,
polymorphism describes the
phenomenon where a
compound or
element can
crystallize into more than one
crystal structure. The preceding...
- Mindat.org Warr, L. N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC
approved mineral symbols".
Mineralogical Magazine. 85 (3): 291–320. Bibcode:2021MinM...85..291W. doi:10.1180/mgm...
- In the
field of
mineralogy,
fracture is the
texture and
shape of a rock's
surface formed when a
mineral is fractured.
Minerals often have a
highly distinctive...