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mineralogy

scientific study of minerals
Class type of: geology Q83353

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
branch of geology, academic discipline, field of study, academic major, field of study[3][4][5]
Subclass of
geology
Described by source
New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica, The Encyclopedia Americana, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
History of topic
hіstory of mineralogy[17]
Is the study of
mineral[18]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Rocks and minerals[21]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20]
P14541
vPZNe
Practiced by
mineralogist[19]
🏷️ Also known as
en oryctology en mineralogy ar عالم معادن ar علم المعادن cs mineralogie da mineralogi da Mineralog de Oryktographie de Mineralienkunde de Oryktognosie el μεταλλειολογία el ορυκτολογία el ορυκτολόγος es mineralogia es mineralogía fa کانی‌شناسی fa کانی شناسی fa کانیشناسی fi kivennäistiede fr Mineralogie
🔖 Identifiers · 68
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85085589
GND ID
4039457-8
OpenAlex ID
C199289684
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Mineraaleja.jpg ↗
ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID
370505
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300054552
BNCF Thesaurus ID
19246
BabelNet ID
00055135n
Bashenc.online ID
88263
Basisklassifikation
38.30
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11932504q
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
mineralogie
Show all 68 identifiers +56
Colon Classification
H1
Dewey Decimal Classification
549
Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID
153238
Encyclopedia Tatarica (ru) Online ID
razdely/nauka/mineralogiya
Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID
razdely/nauka/mineralogiya
Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID
215122
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
55319
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/mineralogy
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
mineralogie
EuroVoc ID
1936
FactGrid item ID
Třebelovice
Freebase ID
/m/04_vb
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
mineralogia
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0123762
Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
8826
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
mineralogi
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2215002
HDS ID
024471
Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
41020
Iconclass notation
49E51
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
mineralogy
KBpedia ID
Mineralogy
Krugosvet article (archived)
Earth_sciences/geologiya/MINERALI_I_MINERALOGIYA.html
LEM ID
LEM201006164
Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID
5114
Lex ID
mineralogi
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
199289684
Museum-digital tag ID
4185
NALT ID
30453
NDL Authority ID
00566086
NE.se ID
mineralogi
NL CR AUT ID
ph115320
Namuwiki ID
광물학
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007536232205171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX525383
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
2367
Open Library subject ID
mineralogy
Oxford Classical Dictionary ID
4198
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrttHNINn8k7j
PSH ID
4761
Proleksis enciklopedija ID
37494
Provenio UUID
e6d30b88-ccaf-4fbf-b5c3-2060f286f6a9
Quora topic ID
Mineralogy
SVKKL authority ID
h0002271-mineralogie
ScienceDirect topic ID
agricultural-and-biological-sciences/mineralogy, social-sciences/mineralogy, physics-and-astronomy/mineralogy, earth-and-planetary-sciences/mineralogy
Topic's main Wikimedia portal
Portal:Minerals
Topic's main category
Category:Mineralogy
Treccani ID
mineralogia
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept161
USGS Thesaurus ID
747
Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
mineralogija
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Concept", "Mineralogy::b2z9r"]
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
06130720-n
YSO ID
644
Yale LUX ID
concept/5f9e7ec8-985e-47ba-b762-ec496348800e
Zhihu topic ID
20042188

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🔗 Connections
← Field of work 166
Al-Biruni, Mikhail Lomonosov, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Vladimir Vernadsky, Georgius Agricola, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Friedrich Mohs, Abraham Gottlob Werner +158 more
← Main subject 10
International Earth Science Olympiad, Opificio delle pietre dure, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa, American Mineralogist, De Natura Fossilium, Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature..., Mineralientage +2 more
Subtypes 9
crystallography, gemology, jadeite, enstatite, hedenbergite, omphacite, pigeonite, ferrosilite +1 more
← Interested in 9
Friedrich Mohs, René Just Haüy, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Ferdinand Reich, Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann, Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg, Jovan Žujović, Vladimir Sobolev +1 more
← Studied by 6
mineral, amphibole, pseudomorph, vug, authigenic mineral, samotsvety
← Category combines topics 4
Category:Classification of minerals, Category:en:Mineralogy, Category:fr:Mineralogy, Category:Mineralogy museums
← Facet of 4
mineral, streak, classification of minerals, hіstory of mineralogy
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Instance of 3
academic discipline, field of study, academic major
← Field of this occupation 2
mineralogist, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences
Examples 1
mineral colour
FactGrid item ID 1
Třebelovice
History of topic 1
hіstory of mineralogy
Is the study of 1
mineral
Maintained by WikiProject 1
WikiProject Rocks and minerals
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Practiced by 1
mineralogist
Subclass of 1
geology
Topic's main Wikimedia portal 1
Portal:Minerals
Topic's main category 1
Category:Mineralogy
← Academic major 1
Karl Friedrich von Klöden
← Academic minor 1
Eugen von Lommel
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Mineralogy
← FactGrid item ID 1
Bösenbrunn
← Wikimedia portal's main topic 1
Portal:Minerals
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Summary

mineralogy is a branch of geology[1]. mineralogy is a type of geology[2].

Related Entities

Abraham Gottlob Werner Al-Biruni Axel Fredrik Cronstedt Carl Gustaf Mosander crystallography Data Portal of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin Friedrich Mohs geology Georgius Agricola Giovanni Antonio Scopoli Hudson Institute of Mineralogy Mikhail Lomonosov Morten Thrane Brünnich Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Per Teodor Cleve René Just Haüy Viktor Goldschmidt Vladimir Vernadsky

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Frhdkazan · 2026-08-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID → razdely/nauka/mineralogiya
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID: razdely/nauka/mineralogiya"
  2. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → vPZNe
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford Classical Dictionary ID → 4198
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford Classical Dictionary ID: 4198, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107286367|mineralogy (#107286367)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Class"
  4. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0002271-mineralogie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0002271-mineralogie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  5. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Image last checked license → —
    Subclass of → geology
    Instance of → branch of geology, academic discipline, field of study +2
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ YSO ID: 644, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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