Word: mineralogist
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Ulrich Petersen, a mineralogist and mining geologist from La Oroya, Peru, will join the Faculty July 1 as lecturer on geology...
...were sending a manned expedition to Venus, we wouldn't know whether to send a paleo-botanist, a mineralogist, or a deep sea diver," said Carl Sagan, noted expert on Venus from the University of California, yesterday...
...then took Donald and the hunk of metal to Albert Law, editor of the Dalhart Texan. Law, in the belief that it might be a meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size of a pea. Beck found that the substance had a density of 18.63 (density of lead: 11.34). A commercial chemist in Albuquerque confirmed their suspicions that the chunk...
Into the heart of the Congo plunge four white men in search of legendary Mt. Nagala. All four men are searching for something: Samuel for a brilliant friend who once started for Nagala and was never heard from again; Marius, the mineralogist, for rare metals; Joshua, the entomologist, for rare insects; Alessandro, the anthropologist, for "secret gods...
Actually, the stuff is pretty easy to find. A just-published booklet (Handbook oj Uranium Minerals by Jack DeMent and H. C. Dake, Mineralogist Publishing Co., Portland, Ore., $1.50) makes it sound as if anyone could go prospecting...