All books

Professional

Apps About Coach Log in Start reading

Earth and Space Sciences · Glossary

What is Ionic substitution, coupled substitution?

Also known as: ionic substitution · coupled substitution

Definition 7.5 University Earth and Space Sciences — Year 1 · Chapter 7 — Rock-Forming Minerals

An ionic substitution is the replacement, in a site of a crystal structure, of one ion by another of similar radius, without change of the structure. A coupled substitution is a pair of substitutions on two different sites whose changes of charge cancel, so that the crystal stays neutral.

Read in context →