"G. d'Annunzio"
Good knowledge of the chemical, mineralogical and petrographic disciplines.
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Provide a complete overview of the various types of georisources present in nature, their retrieval and possibility of application. Detail the various characterization methodologies. Indicate the mineral synthesis methodologies useful from georisources in environmental and non environmental conditions. Quantification of mineralogical phases in synthetic products.
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.
-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.
Lectures and practical exercises in the laboratory.
Verifications in progress through written tests. The final grade will be the average of the individual votes.
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