Mineralogy (part 1) 1300-OMIC2Z1

Crystallography:
- definition of the crystals; their structure and properties, crystal morphology
- basic crystallography laws, crystal face indices, basic tetrahedron, cosinus formula
- stereographic projection
symmetry and the symmetry elements, crystallographic systems and the review of the 32 crystallographic classes.
General mineralogy:
- definition of the mineral; genetic mineralogy, experimental mineralogy, technical mineralogy, biomineralogy
- properties of the minerals: colour and scratch, lustre, opalescence, pleochroism, birefringence, iridescence, alexandrite effect, cat’s eye effect, asterism, chatoyancy, cleavage and fracture, plasticity and flexibility, reactions with hydrochloric acid, magnetic properties, luminescence, density, radioactivity, thermic and electric properties, euhedral, subhedral and anhedral crystals, crystal habits, crystal growths, twinnings, epitaxy, pseudomorphs, paramorphs, mineral aggregates
- minerals in geospheres, environments of mineral formation: mantle, metamorphic, magmatic, (plutonic and volcanic), postmagmatic including pegmatitic, pneumatolytic and hydrothermal; hypergenic including evaporates, limnic, continental including rivers, swamps and deserts, karst processes.
Systematic mineralogy:
- native elements
- carbides, nitrides, phosphides, silicides
- sulphides and related minerals
- halogenides
- oxides and hydroxides
- nitrates
- jodates
- borates
- chromates, molybdates, wolframates
- phosphates
- arsenates, vanadates
- silicates and alumosilicates: neso-, soro-, cyclo-, ino-, phyllo- and tectosilicates
- organic compounds.
Crystal optics:
- light properties, light interference, light refraction, isotropy and anisotropy of the light properties of crystals
- construction and use of the polarisation microscope
- light refraction indices
- pleochroism
- light extinction angle
- interference colours, Michel-Levy plot
- refraction indice surfaces; indicatrix
- conoscopic images of the crystals in the oriented sections
- uniaxial vs biaxial crystals, optical sign of the crystals
- optic dispersion
- enantiomorphic crystals, change of the polarisation plane by crystals, Airy spirals.