Structure And Properties Of Silicate Melts

Structure and Properties of Silicate Melts

The Structure and Properties of Oxide Melts

This book represents an extended introductory treatise on the atomic scale structure and physicochemical properties of oxide melts, mainly of silicates, from both the basic science and the applied engineering points of view. This helpful volume covers current experimental information on the structure of oxide melts and glasses and a convenient outline of their various physicochemical properties, including the subject "how structural data can be correlated with their macroscopic properties". This book also includes a fundamental introduction to the beneficial utilization of waste oxides largely produced from metal production in the world. This will be very useful for people working in the field of metallurgy and environmental science. Along with more than 300 references, numerous illustrations and tables, this is a unique source of information and guidance for specialists and non-specialists alike.

Structure, Dynamics, and Properties of Silicate Melts

Volume 32 of Reviews in Mineralogy introduces the basic concepts of melt physics and relaxation theory as applied to silicate melts, then to describe the current state of experimental and computer simulation techniques for exploring the detailed atomic structure and dynamic processes which occur at high temperature, and finally to consider the relationships between melt structure, thermodynamic properties and rheology within these liquids. These fundamental relations serve to bridge the extrapolation from often highly simplified melt compositions studied in the laboratory to the multicomponent systems found in nature. This volume focuses on the properties of simple model silicate systems, which are usually volatile-free. The behavior of natural magmas has been summarized in a previous Short Course volume (Nicholls and Russell, editors, 1990: Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol. 24), and the effect of volatiles on magmatic properties in yet another (Carroll and Holloway, editors, 1994: Vol. 30). The Mineralogical Society of America sponsored a short course for which this was the text at Stanford University December 9 and 10, 1995, preceding the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union and MSA in San Fransisco, with about 100 professionals and graduate students in attendance.