Minerals Wing

Organic Molecules Wing

Element Gallery

• e.g., graphite

Oxide and Hydroxide Gallery

• e.g., hematite, brucite, gibbsite

Sulfide Gallery

• e.g., pyrite

Sulfate, Tungstate, and Molybdate Gallery

• e.g., barite, gypsum

Phosphate Gallery

• e.g., apatite, fluorapatite, brushite, struvite

Halide Gallery

• e.g., halite

Nitrate, Carbonate, Borate Gallery

• e.g., calcite, magnesite

Silicate Gallery

• e.g., beryl, kaolinite, smectite, cristobalite

Organic Mineral Gallery

• e.g., whewellite

Quasi-Minerals Gallery

• e.g., buckminsterfullerene ("bucky balls")

Soil Organic Matter

• e.g., SOM model with humic acid, soil protein, and soil saccharides!

Metal Chelates

• e.g., ferrichrome, a fungal siderophore

Metallo Proteins

• e.g., plastocyanin part of the photosystem of plants, containing about 30% of total plant copper

Membrane Transport Proteins

• e.g., KcsA potassium channel a 2800-atom transmembrane protein with high specificity for potassium

Potassium Compounds

• e.g., valinomycin, an ionophore that complexes with potassium

Pesticides, Herbicides, and Contaminants

• e.g., atrazine, a triazine herbicide, and glyphosate ("Roundup")

Student Gallery

• e.g., phytase splits phytin, an organo-P storage compound

Stereoscopic 3D Gallery

• stereo 3D capabilities of Chime and VRML models in the Virtual Museum