Mineral Chemistry

Abstract

The course of mineral chemistry presented in this work, is addressed primarily to the students of the second year licence of engineering of the processes and second year licence chemistry. We felt it was more than necessary to offer students in this cycle a complete course in inorganic chemistry, covering the study of the elements of the periodic table, their characteristics, the properties they share within the same family and the compounds they generate, as well as the types of bonding according to their state in nature or the conditions of their preparation reactions. The major industrial syntheses and metallurgies are presented. This didactic work is primarily intended for students to help them understand the content of this speciality, which has applications in most aspects of the chemical industry, especially in materials science and environmental chemistry. We hope that this handbook will be of use to students in process engineering, chemistry and other fields, and that it will serve as a useful reference too.