Relating to the chemistry of minerals and rocks; combining mineralogy with chemical analysis and principles.
From 'chemico-' + 'mineralogical' (from Latin mineralis + Greek logia 'study'). Term emerged as geologists adopted chemical methods to understand rock and mineral composition.
When geologists started using chemicomineralogical analysis with X-rays and spectroscopy, they could finally determine what rocks were actually made of—revealing Earth's hidden chemistry!
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