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Mineral chemistry as a science was established in the early years of the nineteenth century by Joseph-Louis Proust’s proposal of the Law of Constant Composition in 1799, John Dalton’s Atomic Theory in 1805, and the development of accurate methods of chemical analysis. By definition, a mineral has a characteristic composition expressed by its formula, e.g., halite (NaCl) or quartz (SiO2).
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Rapp, G.R. (2002). Properties of Minerals. In: Archaeomineralogy. Natural Science in Archaeology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05005-7_2
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