Abstract:Geochemistry is a discipline in the Earth Sciences concerned with understanding the chemistry of the Earth, and what that chemistry tells us about the processes that control the formation and evolution of Earth materials and the planet itself. The periodic table and the periodic law, as developed by Mendeleev and others in the 19 th century, is as important in geochemistry as in other areas of chemistry. In fact, systemisation of the myriad of observations that geochemists make is perhaps even more important i… Show more
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