mineralogy
IPA: mɪnɝˈɑɫʌdʒi
noun
- (petrology) The branch of petrology that studies minerals.
- Mineral materials.
- A treatise on mineralogy.
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Examples of "mineralogy" in Sentences
- I currently have several ongoing projects, which all primarily relate to mineralogy on Mars.
- Thus I soon changed my major to cristallography, that field of mineralogy which is located between chemistry and physics.
- I'm continuing to investigate sites of interesting aqueous mineralogy on Mars in order to search for possible sites where life may have been possible.
- We are looking at these Martian images in order to identify the mineralogy, and the mineralogy tells us about the geochemical environment on the planet.
- Berzelius also applied his organizing abilities to mineralogy, where he classified minerals by their chemical composition rather than by their crystalline type, as had previously been done.
- At Haleakala much of the altered volcanic rocks are a shade of brown but the ones near cinder cones or those with some interesting mineralogy can be orange, purple, pink, yellow or other colors because of their iron content.
- There is here a promising field, intermediate between geology (or mineralogy) and metallurgy, for the application of principles of chemistry, metallurgy, and mineralogy, which is occupied at the present time mainly by the ore salesman.
- The upshot of the Viking life-on-Mars debate has been that NASA has studiously avoided sending life-detection experiments to the planet ever since, choosing instead to concentrate on geology, mineralogy, weather, and the search for water present and past.
- If the information at hand was The Secrets of the Reverende Maister Alexis, some book of chemical lectures, and a deeply felt interest in mineralogy, information and inspiration leading to discovery of a new color would be different from those of someone who combed articles from the contemporary popular press with encyclopedic works and undertook a close inspection of merchandise.
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