The Determination of Rock-Forming Minerals

Download or read book The Determination of Rock-Forming Minerals written by Eugen Hussak and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Determination of Rock-Forming Minerals: With One Hundred and Three Woodcuts The following authorized translation of Dr. Hussak's work was undertaken with the view of supplying a want felt in our colleges and universities. Though great progress has been made in the sciences of mineralogy and lithology in later years, through the study of the optical and the other physical properties of minerals, few attempts have been made to con dense the exhaustive and original articles scattered through the scientific periodicals and State and national publications, and to put them in suitable shape for use in the laboratory and the class-room. It has been the aim, therefore, to place before the American student a practical work which shall describe the methods and exhibit the results of such investigations. The translation of a technical work of this character is beset with difficulties appreciable only by those who have under taken a similar task. Few liberties have been taken with the text, and the attempt has been made to reproduce the original literally so far as possible; at points, however, in order to convey clearly the author's meaning, some recasting of sentences was unavoidable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.