The Stability of Minerals

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The stability of minerals: an introduction

   • Nancy L. Ross, Geoffrey D. Price

   Pages 1-24

3. Bond topology, bond valence and structure stability

   • Frank C. Hawthorne

   Pages 25-87

4. Electronic paradoxes in the structures of minerals

   • Jeremy K. Burdett

   Pages 88-131

5. Lattice vibration and mineral stability

   • Nancy L. Ross

   Pages 132-171

6. Thermodynamics of phase transitions in minerals: a macroscopic approach

   • Michael A. Carpenter

   Pages 172-215

7. The stability of modulated structures

   • J. Desmond C. McConnell

   Pages 216-242

8. Thermochemistry of tetrahedrite-tennantite fahlores

   • Richard O. Sack

   Pages 243-266

9. Thermodynamic data for minerals: a critical assessment

   • Martin Engi

   Pages 267-328

10. The stability of clays

    • Bruce Velde

    Pages 329-351

11. Back Matter

    Pages 352-369

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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.

• chemistry
• clays
• crystal
• mineral
• thermodynamics
• mineral resources

`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

• Crystallography and Mineral Physics Unit, Department of Geological Sciences, University College London, London

  Geoffrey D. Price, Nancy L. Ross

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