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The stability of minerals: an introduction

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The Stability of Minerals

Part of the book series: The Mineralogical Society Series ((MIBS,volume 3))

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Historically, the elucidation of the fundamental factors that determine the stability of crystal structures has been one of the primary objectives of crystallographic and mineralogical research. The fact that this not insubstantial goal has yet to be fully attained was noted recently by the editor of Nature (Maddox, 1988), who went as far as to write:

One of the continuing scandals in the physical sciences is that it remains in general impossible to predict the structure of even the simplest crystalline solids from a knowledge of their chemical composition.

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Ross, N.L., Price, G.D. (1992). The stability of minerals: an introduction. In: Price, G.D., Ross, N.L. (eds) The Stability of Minerals. The Mineralogical Society Series, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-27578-9_1

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