Lecture Notes - Mineralogy - Calculating Mineral Formulas
Calculating Mineral Formulas 2 The resulting "mole numbers" do not appear to be particularly useful because their sum is nor-malized to a number of moles of oxides that has a mass of 100 grams. However, because these are mole numbers, we could immediately write a formula for diopside as follows: In spite of the many digits, it is clear that ...