30% discount for members of The Mineralogical Society of Britain and Ireland This volume addresses the fundamental factors that underlie our understanding of mineral behaviour and crystal chemistry - a timely topic given current advances in research into the complex behaviour of solids and supercomputing.

Preface. The stability of minerals: an introduction - N L Ross and G D Price; Bond topology, bond valence and structure stability - F C Hawthorne; Electronic paradoxes in the structures of minerals - J K Burdett; Lattice vibration and mineral stability - N L Ross; Thermodynamics of phase transitions in minerals: a macroscopic approach - M A Carpenter; The stability of modulated structures - J D C McConnell; Thermochemistry of tetrahedrite-tennanite fahlores - R O Sack; Thermodynamic data for minerals: a critical assessment - M Engi; The stability of clays - B Velde

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