Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.15255/KUI.2016.052
Chemistry in Teaching:
Mineralogical Collections in Teaching
Andrea Čobić
; Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Geology, Division of Mineralogy and Petrology, Horvatovac 95, 10 000 Zagreb
Snježana Mikulčić Pavlaković
; Croatian Natural History Museum, Department of Mineralogy and Petrography, Demetrova 1, 10 000 Zagreb
Nenad Raos (ur.)
; Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health Ksaverska c. 2, P.O.B. 291, 10 001 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Mineralogical collections are specialized geological collections consisting of mineral samples. They can be of different type, and the number and diversity of samples depend primarily on the possibilities of the collector, i.e. availability of samples. Collecting of samples is a permanent process, which requires prior knowledge of the minerals to be collected, especially of their physical properties as the first features encountered on a sample. Mineral samples are collected in various ways, i.e. through field investigation, by purchase, exchange, or donations. If mineralogical collections are to be used in elementary or high school teaching, they can be smaller and consist of samples collected only in the schools’ vicinity. Mineralogical collections for college education are usually more complex and are based on the crystal-chemical properties of the minerals. A brief introduction about forming a representative mineralogical collection, processing, maintaining, and utilizing it in teaching is given in this article.
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Keywords
mineralogical collections; teaching; mineral properties
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177623
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Publication date:
1.4.2017.
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