SUBJECT
Environmental analytical techniques 1.
lecture
master
1
Semester 1
Autumn semester
Information content: Mineral phases (solid crystalline compounds) participating or forming in environmental processes – their properties and environmental role. Information types about and characterisation of solid phases (natural or manmade): geometry, texture, chemical composition (major, minor and trace element content, isotopic composition), crystal structural information and the analytical techniques by which one can collect these data. In the first part, attention is focussed on the basic properties of solids (shape, texture, density, cleavage etc.) and from the applicable analytical methods, differential thermal analysis, X-ray powder diffraction and Raman spectroscopy are introduced.
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- Papp, G., Weiszburg, T.G. (ser. ed. 2000): EMU Notes in Mineralogy, Vol. 2: D.J. Vaughan, R.A. Wogelius (ed.): Environmental Mineralogy. Eötvös Univ. Press, Budapest, pp. 1–434. (Egyetemi tankönyv)
- Papp, G., Weiszburg, T. G. (ser. ed. 2004): EMU Notes in Mineralogy, Vol. 6: Beran, A., Libowitzky, E. (ed.): Spectroscopic methods in mineralogy. Eötvös Univ. Press, Budapest, pp. 1–661. (Egyetemi tankönyv)
- J. Dubessy, M.-C. Caumon and F. Rull (editors, 2012): EMU Notes in Mineralogy, Vol. 12: Raman spectroscopy applied to Earth Sciences and Cultural Heritage. pp. 1-504.
- R. Jenkins, R. Snyder (1996): Introduction to X-Ray Powder Diffractometry. 432 pp. ISBN: 978-0-471-51339-1