Silica : : Physical Behavior, Geochemistry, and Materials Applications / / ed. by Peter J. Heaney, Charles T. Prewitt, Gerald V. Gibbs.

Volume 29 of Reviews in Mineralogy provides an updated silica review which focuses on the most recent developments. This book describes the crystal structures and phase transitions of silica and its stuffed derivatives; bridges the relationship between the microstructural character of real silica mi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Physical Sciences 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©1994
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry , 29
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVIII, 606 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Copyright
  • List of additional volumes of Reviews in Mineralogy
  • Foreword
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • REFERENCES
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Chapter 1. STRUCTURE AND CHEMISTRY OF THE LOW-PRESSURE SILICA POLYMORPHS
  • Chapter 2. HIGH-PRESSURE BEHAVIOR OF SILICA
  • Chapter 3. STUFFED DERIVATIVES OF THE SILICA POLYMORPHS
  • Chapter 4. HYDROGEN SPECIATION AND CHEMICAL WEAKENING OF QUARTZ
  • Chapter 5. PREFERRED ORIENTATION PATTERNS IN DEFORMED QUARTZITES
  • Chapter 6. STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OPALINE AND MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICA MINERALS
  • Chapter 7. PETROGENESIS OF CHERT
  • Chapter 8. SILICA-WATER INTERACTIONS
  • Chapter 9. THERMOCHEMISTRY OF CRYSTALLINE AND AMORPHOUS SILICA
  • Chapter 10. THE ELUSIVE SiO BOND
  • Chapter 11. FIRST-PRINCIPLES THEORY OF CRYSTALLINE Si02
  • Chapter 12. LATTICE DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOR OF ANHYDROUS SILICA
  • Chapter 13. COLORED VARIETIES OF THE SILICA MINERALS
  • Chapter 14. INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF SILICA
  • Chapter 15. SILICA ZEOLITES AND CLATHRASILS
  • Chapter 16. HEALTH EFFECTS OF SILICA DUST EXPOSURE