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1. Mineralogy: Mineralogy is an Earth science focused around the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. Specific studies within mineralogy include the processes of mineral origin and formation, classification of minerals, their geographical distribution, as well as their ... [100%] 2023-02-04
2. Mineralogy: Mineralogy, the science which describes and classifies the different kinds of mineral matter constituting the material of the earth's crust and of those extra-terrestrial bodies called meteorites. The study of minerals is thus a branch of natural history ... [100%] 2022-09-02
3. Mineralogy: Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts. Specific studies within mineralogy include the processes of mineral origin and formation, classification of ... (Earth) [100%] 2023-12-10 [Mineralogy]
4. Mineralogy: Mineralogy is the scientific study of minerals. Minerals are solid crystalline substances of natural occurrence. [100%] 2024-01-01 [Geology/Lectures] [Minerals/Lectures]...
5. Moon Mineralogy Mapper: The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M) is one of two instruments that NASA contributed to India 's first mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1, launched October 22, 2008. It is an imaging spectrometer, and the team is led by Principal investigator ... (Engineering) [57%] 2023-12-10 [Discovery Program]
6. MiMa Mineralogy and Mathematics Museum: MiMa is a museum of mineralogy and mathematics in Oberwolfach, in the central Black Forest in southern Germany . The museum was opened on 30 January 2010 on the site of the mineral museum after a two-year conversion and expansion ... [44%] 2023-11-29 [History of mathematics]
7. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry: Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry is the official review journal of the Mineralogical Society of America and The Geochemical Society. It was established in 1974 as Mineralogical Society of America Short Course Notes and renamed to Reviews in Mineralogy in ... (Chemistry) [44%] 2023-12-12 [Mineralogy]
8. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (abrégé en Contrib. Mineral. [44%] 2023-12-11
9. Lustre (mineralogy): Lustre (or luster) is a description of the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral. For example, a diamond is said to have an adamantine lustre and pyrite is said to have a metallic lustre. (Mineralogy) [70%] 2023-12-09 [Mineralogy]
10. Lustre (mineralogy): Lustre (British English) (or luster) (American English; see spelling differences) is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral. The word traces its origins back to the Latin lux, meaning "light", and generally implies radiance ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-11-02 [Mineralogy]
11. Bleb (mineralogy): In geology, mineralogy, and petrology, a bleb is a small bubble-like inclusion of one mineral within a larger mineral. An example is a bleb of sylvite within chlorite. (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-11 [Mineralogy]
12. Spar (mineralogy): Spar is an old mining or mineralogy term used to refer to crystals that have readily discernible faces. A spar will easily break or cleave into rhomboidal, cubical, or laminated fragments with smooth shiny surfaces. (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-10 [Crystals] [Mineralogy]...
13. Optical mineralogy: Optical mineralogy is the study of minerals and rocks by measuring their optical properties. Most commonly, rock and mineral samples are prepared as thin sections or grain mounts for study in the laboratory with a petrographic microscope. (Physics) [70%] 2023-12-11 [Optical mineralogy] [Polarization (waves)]...
14. Magnetic mineralogy: 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 on the type of magnetic order or disorder. (Study of magnetic properties of minerals with a view to understanding magnetism within rocks) [70%] 2024-01-06 [Geomagnetism] [Mineralogy]...
15. Normative mineralogy: Normative mineralogy is a calculation of the composition of a rock sample that estimates the idealised mineralogy of a rock based on a quantitative chemical analysis according to the principles of geochemistry. Normative mineral calculations can be achieved via either ... (Chemistry) [70%] 2023-12-10 [Geochemistry] [Mineralogy]...
16. Tenacity (mineralogy): In mineralogy, tenacity is a mineral's behavior when deformed or broken. Brittleness: The mineral breaks or powders easily. (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-11 [Mineralogy] [Deformation (mechanics)]...
17. Streak (mineralogy): The streak of a mineral is the color of the powder produced when it is dragged across an un-weathered surface. Unlike the apparent color of a mineral, which for most minerals can vary considerably, the trail of finely ground ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-09-22 [Mineralogy]
18. Lustre (mineralogy): Lustre (British English) (or luster) (American English; see spelling differences) is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral. The word traces its origins back to the Latin lux, meaning "light", and generally implies radiance ... (Mineralogy) [70%] 2023-12-11 [Mineralogy]
19. Normative mineralogy: Normative mineralogy is a calculation of the composition of a rock sample that estimates the idealised mineralogy of a rock based on a quantitative chemical analysis according to the principles of geochemistry. Normative mineral calculations can be achieved via either ... (Calculation of the composition of a rock) [70%] 2024-01-06 [Geochemistry] [Mineralogy]...
20. Automated mineralogy: Automated mineralogy is a generic term describing a range of analytical solutions, areas of commercial enterprise, and a growing field of scientific research and engineering applications involving largely automated and quantitative analysis of minerals, rocks and man-made materials. Automated ... (Physics) [70%] 2023-12-11 [Scientific techniques] [Measuring instruments]...
21. Fracture (mineralogy): 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 fracture, making it a principal feature used in their identification. (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-12 [Mineralogy] [Fracture mechanics]...
22. Extinction (optical mineralogy): Extinction is a term used in optical mineralogy and petrology, which describes when cross-polarized light dims, as viewed through a thin section of a mineral in a petrographic microscope. Isotropic minerals, opaque (metallic) minerals, and amorphous materials (glass) do ... (Earth) [57%] 2023-09-14 [Optical mineralogy]
23. History of mineralogy: Early writing on mineralogy, especially on gemstones, comes from ancient Babylonia, the ancient Greco-Roman world, ancient and medieval China, and Sanskrit texts from ancient India. Books on the subject included the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder which not ... (none) [57%] 2023-11-05 [Mineralogy]
24. Extinction (optical mineralogy): Extinction is a term used in optical mineralogy and petrology, which describes when cross-polarized light dims, as viewed through a thin section of a mineral in a petrographic microscope. Isotropic minerals, opaque (metallic) minerals, and amorphous materials (glass) do ... (Optical mineralogy) [57%] 2024-01-09 [Mineralogy concepts] [Optical mineralogy]...
25. Type specimen (mineralogy): In mineralogy, the type specimen, also known as type material, is a reference sample by which a mineral is defined. Similar to the biology type methods, a mineral type specimen is a sample (or in some cases a group of ... (Earth) [57%] 2023-12-11 [Mineralogy]