To create characterization in fiction or non-fiction, 1  Tell the reader directly what a character's personality is like: 2  Describe a character's appearance and manner: 3  Portray a character's thoughts and motivations:  Use dialogue to allow a character's words to reveal something important about his or her nature:
Cherniak (2010b) reviews diffusion in the accessory minerals zircon, monazite, apatite, and xenotime, phases important in geochronologic studies. Diffusion in other minerals, including carbonates, sulfide minerals, fluorite and diamond, is reviewed by Cherniak (2010c).
Conflict Minerals. The mineral trade has funded violence and armed conflict for decades. Despite international legislation aimed at cleaning up the trade, conflict minerals can still enter global markets and end up in products, such as mobile phones, laptops and cars. Read more The mineral trade has funded some of the worldâs most brutal conflicts for decades.