Category: Mineralogy

By Frederic R. Siegel

ISBN-10: 3319096850

ISBN-13: 9783319096858

ISBN-10: 3319096869

ISBN-13: 9783319096865

This publication brings jointly in one quantity a grand evaluation of strategies - political, monetary, and medical - to social and environmental difficulties which are on the topic of the expansion of human populations in parts which can least do something about them now. via revolutionary edition to social and environmental adjustments projected for the long run, together with inhabitants development, international warming/climate switch, water deficits, and extending festival for different ordinary assets, the area are able to in achieving a good measure of sustainability for your time into the future.

By Donald L. Sparks

ISBN-10: 0126564469

ISBN-13: 9780126564464

Environmental Soil Chemistry illustrates basic rules of soil chemistry with admire to environmental reactions among soils and different ordinary fabrics and heavy metals, insecticides, business contaminants, acid rain, and salts. well timed and accomplished discussions of functions to real-world environmental issues are a critical concentration of this confirmed textual content. <*> presents scholars with either sound modern education within the fundamentals of soil chemistry and functions to real-world environmental matters <*> well timed and entire dialogue of vital strategies together with: sorption/desorption, oxidation-reduction of metals and organics, and results of acidic deposition and salinity on contaminant reacions <*> Boxed sections specialize in pattern difficulties and factors of keywords and parameters <*> broad tables on elemental composition of soils, rocks and sediments, pesticide sessions, inorganic minerals, and techniques of decontaminating soils <*> basically written for all scholars and pros in environmental technological know-how and environmental engineering in addition to soil technology

By Egon T. Degens

ISBN-10: 3540501916

ISBN-13: 9783540501916

ISBN-10: 364248879X

ISBN-13: 9783642488795

Perspectives on Biogeochemistry is an account of the beginning of forces and topic on the sunrise of time, and how they advanced to planet Earth of this present day. a number of fields of common sciences are consulted to provide a coherent view at the biking of terrestrial parts and molecules, either natural and inorganic, during time. severe info are drawn jointly from astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, and geology with a view to supply a few realizing of the complexity of the method Earth. during this booklet, E.T. Degens abstracts his wisdom of biogeochemical interactions obtained in additional than thirty years of study and instructing. scholars and somebody within the usual sciences desirous to familiarize themselves with phenomena winning on the outer edge in their disciplines will revenue through the very thorough and private view of this urgent topic.

By Günter Tiess

ISBN-10: 3211094520

ISBN-13: 9783211094525

ISBN-10: 3211094539

ISBN-13: 9783211094532

Bedingt durch das Wirtschaftswachstum bevölkerungsreicher Schwellenländer hat die Nachfrage nach mineralischen Rohstoffen weltweit stark zugenommen. Der steigende Rohstoffbedarf in Verbindung mit einem mangelnden Rohstoffbewusstsein in Europa führt zu paradoxen Situationen. Einer gesamteuropäischen Rohstoffpolitik kommen zur Lösung dieser Probleme wesentliche Aufgaben zu. Insbesondere die Erweiterung und der Ausbau der bestehenden Instrumente wie z.B. Recycling und Substitution werden die eigene Versorgungssicherheit langfristig gewährleisten.

By Ettagale Blauer

ISBN-10: 147574854X

ISBN-13: 9781475748543

ISBN-10: 1475748566

ISBN-13: 9781475748567

The Phenomenon of Studio Goldsmithing while the background of artwork within the Eighties is written, a lot of it is going to be etched in gold. this is often the time of the modern goldsmith, an artist who chooses to paintings in worthwhile metals instead of oils or marble. The modern jeweler-as-artist has just recently develop into a re­ cognized strength. With infrequent exceptions, the complete box is little greater than thirty years previous. however it is just in the previous fifteen years that those jewelers have entered the jewellery mainstream. The phenomenon of up to date goldsmithing embraces an eclectic team of artists, every one with a special imaginative and prescient, every one taking a in keeping with­ sonal route to jewellery generating. they've got as little dating to the common, heavily produced jewellery as a champagne maker has to a bottler of orange soda. They technique a section of artwork, now not a bit of steel. The paintings is own and an ideal expression of the "back to the land" stream that spawned it. lots of those goldsmiths have been having a look now not only for how to make a dwelling yet for how to make a existence that was once worthwhile of residing. working a company whereas attempting to stay an artistic metalsmith while is the continuing problem. The jeweler-artists have solved or resolved those usually conflicting wishes in a bit other ways and in a stunning number of ideas and kinds. Their meth­ ods, their progress, and their paintings are mentioned here.

By Professor Gian Luigi Chierici (auth.)

ISBN-10: 3662029642

ISBN-13: 9783662029640

ISBN-10: 3662029669

ISBN-13: 9783662029664

Six years in the past, on the finish of my specialist occupation within the oil undefined, I left my administration place inside Agip S.p.A., a big multinational oil corporation whose headquarters are in Italy, to absorb the chair in reservoir engineering on the college of Bologna, Italy. There, i made a decision to arrange what was once first and foremost meant to be a collection of lecture notes for the scholars attending the direction. even though, whereas getting ready those notes, I turned so absorbed within the subject material that I quickly stumbled on myself making a massive quantity of textual content which may not just function a school direction fabric, but in addition as a reference for wider specialist purposes. because of the curiosity proven by means of the then president of Agip, Ing. Giuseppe Muscarella, this did certainly culminate within the book of the 1st Italian variation of this booklet in 1989. the interpretation into English and ebook of those volumes owes a lot to the encouragement of the present president of Agip, Ing. Guglielmo Moscato. My thankful thank you are because of either gents. And now - the English model, translated from the second one Italian variation, and containing a couple of revisions and lots more and plenty extra fabric. in addition to delivering an exceptional theoretical foundation for some of the subject matters, this paintings attracts largely on my 36 years of globally adventure within the improvement and exploitation of oil and fuel fields.

By Bernhard Pracejus

ISBN-10: 0444528636

ISBN-13: 9780444528636

It is a very specified color atlas for ore/opaque minerals (ore microscopy) with the most emphasis on identify and synonyms, mineral staff, chemical composition, information regarding significant formation surroundings, optical info, mirrored image colour/shade comparability with four common/standard minerals of the same color or gray color, as much as five high quality photographs for every mineral with scale, and a brief description of the photographs. A compilation from many of the well-known guides within the box of ore microscopy yielded a listing of 431 minerals are incorporated during this atlas. * Concise complete color pictorial reference for scientists and geologists* Explains how you can describe and determine microscopic samples of minerals* attracts fabric from in demand literature yielding over four hundred varied minerals

By Jeremy Ingham

ISBN-10: 1840761326

ISBN-13: 9781840761320

ISBN-10: 184076600X

ISBN-13: 9781840766004

The 1st accomplished consultant to the petrography of geomaterials, making the petrographers expert wisdom on hand to practitioners, educators and scholars all over the world drawn to sleek and old development fabrics

By Georg Will

ISBN-10: 3540279857

ISBN-13: 9783540279853

ISBN-10: 3540279865

ISBN-13: 9783540279860

Crystal constitution research from powder diffraction info has attracted huge and ever starting to be curiosity within the final a long time. X-ray powder diffraction is healthier recognized for section research (Hanawalt documents) relationship again to the 30s. within the overdue 60s the inherent strength of powder diffraction for crystallographic difficulties used to be discovered and scientists built equipment for utilizing powder diffraction info first and foremost just for the refinement of crystal buildings. With the advance of ever growing to be laptop strength profile becoming and development decomposition allowed to extract person intensities from overlapping diffraction peaks beginning how to many different purposes, particularly to ab initio constitution selection. Powder diffraction this day is utilized in X-ray and neutron diffraction, the place it's a strong technique in neutron diffraction for the decision of magnetic constructions. within the final decade the curiosity has dramatically superior. there's not often any box of crystallography the place the Rietveld, or complete trend technique has no longer been attempted with quantitative section research crucial contemporary software.

By Barry Golding, Suzanne D. Golding

ISBN-10: 3319511734

ISBN-13: 9783319511733

ISBN-10: 3319511750

ISBN-13: 9783319511757

This ebook explains how and the place copper and fossil fuels have been shaped and the most likely destiny for the extraction of copper and coal. the vibrant chronology of our efforts to extract metals from minerals and effort from fossil fuels is gifted from earliest occasions until eventually the current day. The tough inspiration of human sustainability is tested within the context of regularly reducing actual costs of power and metals. This publication integrates the most recent findings on our ancient use of expertise to continually produce more cost-effective metals even supposing ore grades were reducing. in addition, it indicates that the speed of technological development needs to bring up if metals are to be produced much more affordably within the future.