Technical Mineralogy and Petrography, part A

Technical Mineralogy and Petrography, part A - Andrzej Szymański

The book offers an original approach to basic mineralogical knowledge as applied to process design in inorganic mineral materials manufacture. It is thus an introduction to materials engineering seen from the point of view of processes leading to the formation of the final microstructure of the desired material. Richly illustrated with diagrams and micrographs, the book aims to make mineralogists with a natural science background more familiar with the growing needs of the modern minerals industry, not only for very pure of specially prepared mineral powders, but also for the inclusion of mineralogists in teams designing the industrial manufacture of monocrystals, and polycrystalline or amorphous materials. Such an approach makes this a basic textbook of experimental and industrial mineralogy. The equations and calculations usually found in textbooks on physics, chemistry on materials engineering have deliberately been omitted from the present monograph, which is intended to complement the afore-mentioned books, furnishing practical knowledge so that the reader may understand the sequences of changes taking place when raw minerals are processed to yield the various kinds of materials manufactured and utilized by modern industry. For ease of use, the sets of tables characterizing materials by their components and the sets of microstructures divided into eight different groups, are published in a separate volume (Part B, ISBN 8301073187). This includes verbal and digital descriptions of the structures, the latter being based on the theory of graphs.