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Undergraduate 4
11/07/2007

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Crystal  Parallel Growth
Definition
Two crystals that grow in a parallel fashion
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Crystal Epitaxis
Definition
Growing a crystal layer of one mineral on the crystal base of another mineral in such a manner that its crystalline orientation is the same
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Twinning
Definition
Two seperate crystals sharing some of the same crystal lattice points
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Crystal Composition Surface  
Definition
Surface along which lattice points are shared in twinned crystals
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Composition Plane  
Definition
an added mirror plane
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Contact Twin Minerals  
Definition
Spinel, Quartz
Term
Penetration Twins
Definition
Fluorite, Pyrite, Orthoclase
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Polysynthetic Twins
Definition
Plagioclase, calcite
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Multiple Twins  
Definition
Rutile, Chrysoberyl
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Ionic Bond
Definition
between two different elements with different electronegativity
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Covalent Bond
Definition
atoms achieve a stable electron configuration by sharing one or more electrons, between the same ions or ions with similiar electronegativity
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Metallic Bond  
Definition
Outer electrons are not bonded to any particular atom but can roam freely about
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Van der Wall bond  
Definition
Weak, some molecules have polar nature
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Hydrogen Bond
Definition
A bond formed by a hydrogen atom to an electron negative atom
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Pauling's Rules #1
Definition
Anions are around Cations. The distance between the two is determined  by sum of radii & C.N. by the Ra Rx
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Paulings Rule #2
Definition
An Ionic Structure will be stable as long as the electrostatic bonds between an anion and cation are equal to the charge on the anion
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Paulings Rule #3
Definition
When polyhedra share faces or edges they will be less stable
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Paulings Rule #4
Definition
In a crystal containing different cations, those of high valency and small coordination number tend not to share polyhedron elements with one another.
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Paulings Rule #5
Definition
The number of different types of consitituents in a crystal teends to be small because there are aonly a few types of contrastint cation and anion sites.
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Rule 1-4...?
Definition
all designed to maximize cation-anion attractions and to minimize anion-anion and cation-cation repulsion
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Packing: CCP
Definition

Cubic Close Packing halite, gold, silver, platinum

Radius Ratio is 1. Packed in Layers ABC ABC ABC 

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Packing: HCP
Definition

Hexagonal Closest Packing.

Radius Ratio:1 Packed ABABAB 

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Packing SCP
Definition
Simple Cubic Packing: Ra: Rx Values .73-1.0 Cations at the center of a cube and the anions at the eight corners
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