Sentence examples for mineral identification from inspiring English sources

For mineral identification the ICDD database (www.icdd.com; PDF-2) has been used.

Because hardness is a highly diagnostic property in mineral identification, most determinative tables use relative hardness as a sorting parameter.

Petrological research requires a strong understanding of the principles of mineralogy and mineral identification and a thorough familiarity with the theoretical and experimental studies of rock origins.

A sample-detector distance of about 110 mm and a detector area of 80 × 120 mm resulted in a maximum diffraction angle of ca. 35° (lattice spacing d ca. 1.2 Å), sufficient for mineral identification.

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis has been an important means in mineral identification, material damage detection, and aiding in water jet research.

The mineral identification presents the following mineral species: magnetite, goethite, hematite, anatase, rutile, quartz, gregoryite, sulfate (thenardite and hexahydrite), diopside, feldspar, analcime, kaolinite and muscovite.

The mineral identifications are based on XRD (Bruker-AX D500 X-ray Diffractometer, Germany) measurements.

The detrital and authigenic minerals identification in the samples was carried out using X-ray diffraction.

Mineral phase identification was carried out by X-ray powder diffraction using a Scintag PAD-V diffractometer system (Scintag, USA) with Cu Kα radiation (λ = 1.5406 Å).

This EDX line scan confirms different materials, although no mineral phase identification is possible by the use of this method.

Here, we use the term "silica mineral" because identification of silica polymorphs is often impossible with EDS analysis.