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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
Mineral Geological Resources and Mineralogic and Petrographic Applications for the Environment and Cultural Heritage
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Good knowledge of the chemical, mineralogical and petrographic disciplines.
Objectives
Contents GEORESOURCES AND Industrial Minerals :
-Clays (caolin and ceramic materials)
-Minerals for agriculture and chemical industry
-Raw materials for glass industry
-Tripoli, microcristalline silica and diatoms
-Calcium silicates and feldspathoids for industrial and medical uses
- Industrial cements
-Zeolites (deposits, synthesis and uses)
-Pigments
CHARACTERIZATION OF geomaterialS
Characterizations (spectroscopic, chemical, morphological, physics, thermal analyses etc).
Behaviour in room and experimental conditions.
Rietveld method -QPA (Quantitative Phase Analysis) and RIR (Reference Intensity Ratio)
SYNTHESIS OF INDUSTRIAL MINERALS BY THE USE OF GEORESOURCES
Hydrothermal synthesis - Synthesis at high P and T.
Extended Syllabus GEORESOURCES AND Industrial Minerals :
-Clays (caolin and ceramic materials)
-Minerals for agriculture and chemical industry
-Raw materials for glass industry
-Tripoli, microcristalline silica and diatoms
-Calcium silicates and feldspathoids for industrial and medical uses
- Industrial cements
-Zeolites (deposits, synthesis and uses)
-Pigments
CHARACTERIZATION OF geomaterialS
Characterizations (spectroscopic, chemical, morphological, physics, thermal analyses etc).
Behaviour in room and experimental conditions.
Rietveld method -QPA (Quantitative Phase Analysis) and RIR (Reference Intensity Ratio)
SYNTHESIS OF INDUSTRIAL MINERALS BY THE USE OF GEORESOURCES
Hydrothermal synthesis - Synthesis at high P and T.
Recommended Bibliography -Industrial minerals and rocks (Commodities, Markets and Uses). 7th edition edited by Kogel, Trivedi, Barker and Krukowski.
-D.A.C. Manning. Introduction to Industrial Minerals. Springer.
-B. Velde. Introduction to Clay Minerals. Springer.
Slides.
-Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Vol.74: Applied Mineralogy of Cement & Concrete. Mineralogical Society of America, Geochemical Society. Ed. J.J. Rosso
.J. P. Ingham. Geomaterials under the microscope. Manson Publishing.
Methods of Provision
Teaching Methods Lectures and practical exercises in the laboratory.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Verifications in progress through written tests.
The final grade will be the average of the individual votes.
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