CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2022 Learning Outcomes: 1. Use symmetrical theories (both point groups and space groups) to interpret crystal structures. Audience: Graduate 2. Summarize X-ray diffraction theory, operate powder X-ray diffraction experiments, and carry our quantitative analyses (rietveld analysis and structure refinements). Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate mineral phase transformations, solid solutions / exsolution processes and thermodynamics. Audience: Graduate 4. Identify defects and their formation processes in minerals and related host rocks. Audience: Graduate 5. Explain the principles governing size-dependent properties of nano-phase minerals in the earth system. Audience: Graduate 6. Identify structures, symmetries and superspace groups for quasi-crystals, and aperiodic minerals with incommensurately modulated structures. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Use symmetrical theories (both point groups and space groups) to interpret crystal structures. Audience: Graduate 2. Summarize X-ray diffraction theory, operate powder X-ray diffraction experiments, and carry our quantitative analyses (rietveld analysis and structure refinements). Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate mineral phase transformations, solid solutions / exsolution processes and thermodynamics. Audience: Graduate 4. Identify defects and their formation processes in minerals and related host rocks. Audience: Graduate 5. Explain the principles governing size-dependent properties of nano-phase minerals in the earth system. Audience: Graduate 6. Identify structures, symmetries and superspace groups for quasi-crystals, and aperiodic minerals with incommensurately modulated structures. Audience: Graduate