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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      31 October 2009
      07 April 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511610349
      9780521714792
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511610349
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      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.495kg, 308 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Earth and Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology, Materials Science
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    How do crystals nucleate and grow? Why and how do crystals form such a wide variety of morphologies, from polyhedral to dendritic and spherulitic forms? These are questions that have been posed since the seventeenth century, and are still of vital importance today both for modern technology, and to understand the Earth's interior and the formation of minerals by living organisms. In this book, Ichiro Sunagawa sets out clearly the atomic processes behind crystal growth, and describes case studies of complex systems from diamond, calcite and pyrite, to crystals formed through biomineralization, such as the aragonite of shells, and apatite of teeth. Essential reading for advanced graduates and researchers in mineralogy and materials science.

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    "I can recommend [the book] to any mineralogist who cn appreciate new ideas in the theoretical approach to crystal forms and in different methods and techniques for internal and external study of crystals. This up-to-date work has a place also in introductory courses in crystallography and mineralogy." The Canadian Mineralogist, R.I. Kostov, University of Mining and Geology, Bulgaria

    "In this reviewer's opinion, this is the comst comprehensive book currently available on crystal growth and morphology."--Gems and Gemology

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