1 “... disciplinary boundaries fade. Chemists and physicists are no longer shying away from computational mineral...”

2 “..., mineralogists, geologists and physicists. Based on the author's more than 25 years of teaching experience...”

3 “... that metallurgists and crystal physicists­ having solved most of the structural and crystallographic problems...”

4 “... by solid state physicists and chemists in defining the underlying phenomena lnvolved in the thermal...”