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- Title
Using the American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database in the Classroom.
- Authors
Clark, Christine M.; Downs, Robert T.
- Abstract
The American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database is a compilation of every crystal structure potentially of mineralogic or geologic interest. The database, seen as an outreach service, is funded and maintained by NSF, the Mineralogical Society of America and the Mineralogical Association of Canada. This database, when linked with visualization software, provides an invaluable resource for instructors, allowing direct access to crystal structures of almost any mineral, and many at various compositions, pressures or temperatures. Associated with the database is a freeware visualization program, XtalDraw with ancillary software modules, Xpow (for visualization of powder diffraction patterns) and SPEEDEN (for visualization of electron density maps). These software modules are user-friendly, allowing students, instructors, and researchers to easily access various crystal structures.. Suggestions. for using, the database and software m an instructional setting are given; full lesson plans and instructional guides are Being developed as Internet resources.
- Subjects
MINERALOGISTS; CRYSTALLINE rocks; MINERALOGY; GEOLOGY; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; COLLEGE teachers; COMPUTER software; COMPUTER network resources
- Publication
Journal of Geoscience Education, 2004, Vol 52, Issue 1, p76
- ISSN
1089-9995
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5408/1089-9995-52.1.76