The Goldschmidt classification, developed by Victor Goldschmidt, is a geochemical scheme that groups the chemical elements found within the Earth according to the phase they prefer to associate with. It sorts elements into lithophile elements that concentrate in silicate rock, siderophile elements that concentrate in metallic iron, chalcophile elements that associate with sulfide minerals, and atmophile or volatile elements that concentrate in the atmosphere.
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Origin YearWikipedia places the classification's development across the 1920s and 1930s rather than naming one year; 1923 is recorded here as the first year of Goldschmidt's Geochemische Verteilungsgesetze der Elemente paper series, in which the classification was introduced, the earliest year in that documented span. Connections
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In the 1920s and 1930s, Goldschmidt and associates at Oslo and Göttingen applied these methods to many common minerals and formulated a set of rules for how elements are grouped.
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Wikimedia FoundationProposed By: Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, Lead paragraph, first sentence naming Victor Goldschmidt as developer
The Goldschmidt classification, developed by Victor Goldschmidt (1888-1947), is a geochemical classification which groups the chemical elements within the Earth according to their preferred host phases
In Discipline: Mineralogy, Lead paragraph
The Goldschmidt classification, developed by Victor Goldschmidt (1888-1947), is a geochemical classification which groups the chemical elements within the Earth according to their preferred host phases into lithophile (rock-loving), siderophile (iron-loving), chalcophile (sulfide ore-loving or chalcogen-loving), and atmophile (gas-loving) or volatile (the element, or a compound in which it occurs, is liquid or gaseous at ambient surface conditions).
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