Industrial Minerals and Rocks: Nonmetallics Other Than Fuels is a comprehensive reference book that covers the various aspects of industrial minerals and rocks. Written by Joseph Lincoln Gillson, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the properties, uses, and applications of nonmetallic minerals and rocks that are used in various industries.The book is divided into two parts. The first part…
Geodynamics is an old science. Most of the basic theories have been conceived in principle during the 19th century and not many fundamen tal ideas have been added since. Some progress has been made in the following-up of these concepts and, in some instances, in the deter mination of some important facts about the Earth. Nevertheless, geo dynamics has been a highly speculative subject for…
The idea for putting together a tutorial on zeolites came originally from my co-editor, Eric Derouane, about 5 years ago. I ?rst met Eric in the mid-1980s when he spent 2 years working for Mobil R&D at our then Corporate lab at Princeton, NJ. He was on the senior technical staff with projects in the synthesis and characterization of new materials. At that time, I managed a group at our Paulsbor…