Silica: physical behavior, geochemistry and materials applications

Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Structure And Chemistry Of The Low-Pressure Silica Polymorphs
Chapter 2. High-Pressure Behavior Of Silica
Chapter 3. Stuffed Derivatives Of The Silica Polymorphs
Chapter 4. Hydrogen Speciation And Chemical Weakening Of Quartz
Chapter 5. Preferred Orientation Patterns In Deformed Quartzites
Chapter 6. Structural Characteristics Of Opaline And Microcrystalline Silica Minerals
Chapter 7. Petrogenesis Of Chert
Chapter 8. Silica-Water Interactions
Chapter 9. Thermochemistry Of Crystalline And Amorphous Silica
Chapter 10. The Elusive Sio Bond
Chapter 11. First-Principles Theory Of Crystalline Si02
Chapter 12. Lattice Dynamical Behavior Of Anhydrous Silica
Chapter 13. Colored Varieties Of The Silica Minerals
Chapter 14. Industrial Applications Of Silica
Chapter 15. Silica Zeolites And Clathrasils
Chapter 16. Health Effects Of Silica Dust Exposure

Volume 29 of Reviews in Mineralogy provides an updated silica review which focuses on the most recent developments. This book describes the crystal structures and phase transitions of silica and its stuffed derivatives; bridges the relationship between the microstructural character of real silica minerals and the behavior of silica in the geological environment; covers Quantum mechanical considerations of the Si-O bond; shows how calculations based upon first-principles theory can explain and predict silica transitions at high temperatures and pressures; covers spectroscopic analyses of silica and how they reveal vibrational behaviors in response to variations in temperature, pressure, and composition and finally details the uses of silica for industrial purposes.