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B006294 - MINERALOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
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Academic Year 2015-16
Coorte 2014 - 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in DIAGNOSTICS AND MATERIALS FOR CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION
Course year
Second year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Chemistry "Ugo Schiff"
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
GEO/09 - MINING RESOURCES, MINERALOGIC AND PETROGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
Credits
9
Teaching Hours
84
Teaching Term
21/09/2015 ⇒ 23/12/2015
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
italian
Course Content
Definition of a mineral. Fundamentals of crystal chemistry and crystallography. Physical properties, stability and alteration of minerals. Systematic mineralogy (classification of minerals; review of minerals of interest in the Cultural Heritage field). Geomaterials used in Pre-Industrial Revolution times: glass; ceramics; metals and metal alloys. Optical mineralogy: principles and practice of trasmitted light microscopy.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
C. Klein - MINERALOGIA (edizione italiana)
Zanichelli Ed. 2004
William D. Nesse - INTRODUCTION TO MINERALOGY, Oxford Univ. Press.
Robin Gill - CHEMICAL FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOLOGY, Chapman & Hall, 2a Ediz., 1996
Zanichelli Ed. 2004
William D. Nesse - INTRODUCTION TO MINERALOGY, Oxford Univ. Press.
Robin Gill - CHEMICAL FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOLOGY, Chapman & Hall, 2a Ediz., 1996
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired:
Fundamentals of mineralogy. Mineral properties and behaviour, and their applications in the field of Cultural Heritage.
Competences acquired:
Recognition of mechanisms responsible for the physical properties of minerals and their applications in the field of Cultural Heritage.
Skills acquired (at the end of the course):
Assessment and description of mineral properties both at the macroscopic and microscopic scale (by transmitted light microscopy).
Fundamentals of mineralogy. Mineral properties and behaviour, and their applications in the field of Cultural Heritage.
Competences acquired:
Recognition of mechanisms responsible for the physical properties of minerals and their applications in the field of Cultural Heritage.
Skills acquired (at the end of the course):
Assessment and description of mineral properties both at the macroscopic and microscopic scale (by transmitted light microscopy).
Prerequisites
Courses required: none
Courses recommended: Chemistry, Physics
Courses recommended: Chemistry, Physics
Teaching Methods
CFU: 9
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 50
Contact hours for: Laboratory-field/practice (hours): 30
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 50
Contact hours for: Laboratory-field/practice (hours): 30
Type of Assessment
Oral exam with practical test (mineralogical analysis in transmitted light microscopy).
Course program
Definition of a mineral. Brief outline of the history of mineralogy. Genetic processes of minerals. Crystalline and amorphous state. Physical properties of minerals. Chemical bonds in minerals. Ionic radii and coordination polyhedra. Solid solutions: isomorphic substitutions. Crystal-chemical formulae. Polymorphism: mineral stability as a function of PTX parameters. Crystal morphology and symmetry. Periodicity, lattice and unit cell. Systematic mineralogy: classification; the most relevant minerals (silicates and non-silicates). Optical properties: principles (anisotropy/ isotropy; refractive indices; double refraction and birefringence; optical indicatrices, optical sign and interference figures of isotropic, uniaxial and biaxial minerals). Practice of mineral identification both at the macroscopic scale and in transmitted light microscopy. Brief description of main geomaterials utilized in pre-Industrial times for applications in the Cultural Heritage field (glass; ceramics; metals and metal alloys).