Crystallography: Introduction to the Study of Minerals

INTRODUCTION

GEOMETRIC CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

1.- INTRODUCTION TO CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
2.- PERIODICITY, CRYSTAL LATTICE, SYMBOLS AND NOTATIONS
3.- LATTICES AND SYMMETRY
4.- POINT SYMMETRY

5.- SPACE GROUPS

CRYSTALLOCHEMISTRY

6.- CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES. PACKING. COORDINATION

7.- BASIC MODELS OF CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES
8.- DEFECTS. DISLOCATIONS. ISOMORPHISM
9.- POLYMORPHISM. POLYMORPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS. ORDER-DISORDER TRANSFORMATIONS

CRYSTALPHYSIC

10.- RELATION BETWEEN SYMMETRY AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
11.- INTERACTION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES WITH CRYSTALS

12.- CRYSTALS AND LIGHT
13.- THE POLARIZATION MICROSCOPE
14.- OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF TRANSPARENT CRYSTALS AND MINERALS

15.- OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF OPAQUE CRYSTALS AND MINERALS

16.- ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, MECHANICAL AND ELASTIC PROPERTIES
17.- CRYSTALS, MINERALS AND X-RAYS

18.- BIBLIOGRAPHY

19.- EXERCISES

20.- QUESTIONNAIRES

21.- APPENDIX