Patent ID: 7292958

Claim:
A method for predicting a property of an inorganic material of interest, comprising the steps of: for an inorganic reference material: selecting an input data set and an output data set wherein said output data set is a subset of said input data set; and identifying a computational procedure that generates a member of said output data set when a member of said input data set comprising an initial value of a parameter of said inorganic reference material is used as input; for an inorganic material of interest different from said inorganic reference material: selecting said inorganic material of interest; obtaining for said inorganic material of interest an initial value, said initial value being a selected one of a computed initial value and a measured initial value of at least one parameter of said inorganic material of interest; providing said initial value of said at least one parameter for said inorganic material of interest to said computational procedure; computing with said computational procedure to obtain a result; deducing a candidate property of said inorganic material of interest based on said result; and recording on a machine-readable medium said result to predict said property of said inorganic material of interest.