Crystals : growth, morphology, and perfection / Ichiro Sunagawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sunagawa, Ichirō, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crystal growth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do crystals nucleate and grow? Why and how do crystals form such a wide variety of morphologies, from polyhedral to dendritic and spherulitic forms? These are questions that have been posed since the seventeenth century, and are still of vital importance today both for modern technology, and to understand the Earth's interior and the formation of minerals by living organisms. In this book, Ichiro Sunagawa sets out clearly the atomic processes behind crystal growth, and describes case studies of complex systems from diamond, calcite and pyrite, to crystals formed through biomineralization, such as the aragonite of shells, and apatite of teeth. Essential reading for advanced graduates and researchers in mineralogy and materials science.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword to the English translation; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Crystal forms; 3 Crystal growth; 4 Factors determining the morphology of polyhedral crystals; 5 Surface microtopography of crystal faces; 6 Perfection and homogeneity of single crystals; 7 Regular intergrowth of crystals; 8 Forms and textures of polycrystalline aggregates; 9 Diamond; 10 Rock-crystal (quartz); 11 Pyrite and calcite; 12 Minerals formed by vapor growth; 13 Crystals formed by metasomatism and metamorphism; 14 Crystals formed through biological activity; Appendixes

A.1 Setting of crystallographic axesA.2 The fourteen Bravais lattices and seven crystal systems; A.3 Indexing of crystal faces and zones; A.4 Symmetry elements and their symbols; A.5 Stereographic projections of the symmetry involved in the thirty-two crystal classes (point groups); Materials index; Subject index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14033-1

1-280-42228-9

9786610422289

0-511-19764-0

0-511-18114-0

0-511-11345-5

0-511-33129-0

0-511-61034-3

0-511-11294-7

OCLC:

71513495