Syllabus
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Course Code: GT-304 Course Name: Crystallography and Mineralogy |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Mineral, definition, different groups of minerals: silicates, carbonates, sulphates, oxides and other mineral groups, physical properties of minerals, branches of mineralogy. | |
| 2 | Principles of optical mineralogy: petrological microscope, nicol prism polarizer, optical properties of isotropic and anisotropic minerals in polarized light, optic figures, optical sign, uniaxial and biaxial minerals. | |
| 3 | Crystal: definition, form, unit cell, element of symmetry, parameter and indices, lattice concept, holohedral symmetry classes, crystal systems. | |
| 4 | Crystal defects, polymorphism, isomorphism, pseudomorphism, and twinning, magnetic properties of minerals, silicate structures, brief introduction to analytical methods in mineral science. | |
