Mineralogy for Students (3rd ed)

This edition has been revised to incorporate the many advances in techniques and methods for studying materials that have developed since the mid-1970s.

Topics new to this edition include X-ray power diffractometry; electron and neutron diffraction; tranmission electron microscopy; electron microprobe analysis; X-ray fluorescence analysis; atomic absorption analysis; and inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy.The book includes introduction to the main modern instrumental techniques for studying the structure and composition of minerals.

It also includes a comprehensive treatment of mineral optics.

In addition, there are detailed descriptions, with physical and optical parameters and structural diagrams, of some two hundred of the more common minerals.