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Give at least two examples of minerals in each group?
silicate: feldspar and mica non-silicate: halides and native gold
If there approximately 3600 known minerals and about 20 of the minerals are native elements what percentage of all minerals are native elements?
Percentage is a ratio. In your question you ask, what value is 20 compared to 3600. solution: (20/3600)*100 = 0.56%, slightly greater than 1/2%
What is halides oxides sufates sulfides carbonates and native elements are blank minerals?
Nonsilicate
What are the eight major mineral groups?
Silicate, Native Elements, Carbonates, Halides, Oxides, Phosphates, Sulfates, and Sulfides are the eight major mineral groups
To what class of minerals do gold silver and copper belong?
Gold, Silver and Copper belong to the native elements mineral group.
Why non silicate minerals have wider variety of crystalline structures than silicate minerasls do?
Non-silicate minerals contain oxygen and native elements. They have metallic and non-metallic lusters, and are very common.
What are the 6 classes of non-silicate minerals?
1. Native Elements 2. Carbonates 3. Halides 4. Oxides 5. Sulfates 6. Sulfides
Name the major groups of minerals and give at least two examples of minerals in each group?
silicate: feldspar and mica non-silicate: halides and native gold
Give at least two examples of minerals in each group?
silicate: feldspar and mica non-silicate: halides and native gold
How are silicate minerals different from non silicate minerals?
Silicates are found in just about every variety of rock, including sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic. The thing that differentiates silicates from other minerals is the presence of the element silicon in the matrix. It is silicon that silicate minerals are named for. Use link below to check out this huge family of minerals.
What kind of elements are halides oxides sulfates sulfides carbonates and native elements?
What you have listed are not elements (except for the 'native elements'), they are classifications of minerals.
What mineral is not a silicate mineral?
A silicate mineral comes from silicates, the most dominant mineral class which accounts for over 90 percent of Earth's crust. Silicates form through the combination of oxygen and silicon, and more than 800 species of silicate minerals have been identified. Silicates include feldspars, quartz, olivine, and more. Yet, to identify a mineral that is not a silicate mineral we must identify the nonsilicate class, which encompass the other mineral classes that are far less abundant than the silicates. They are very important economically and they can be further categorized into carbonates, halides, oxides, sulfides, sulfates, and native elements. Minerals of each of these sub-classes represent minerals that are not a silicate mineral; thus, there are numerous answers to this question. Calcite is not a silicate mineral because it is a carbonate, halite is not because it is a halide, galena is not because it is a sulfide, gypsum is not because it is a sulfate, and gold is not because it is a native element.
Halides oxides sulfates sulfides carbonates and native elements are what kind of mineral?
non-silicate
What are the different mineral?
There are over four thousand different minerals. There are some major groups of minerals, which include groups such as oxides, silicates, carbonates, phosphates, borates, halides, sulfides, and native elements.
Describe the two major groups of minerals?
Minerals can be classified into 13 groups according to their constituents. The major groups are: (1) native elements; (2) sulfides; (3) sulfosalts; (4) oxides and hydroxides; (5) halides and borates; (6) carbonates; (7) nitrates and iodates; (8) phosphates, vanadates, and arsenates; (9) sulfates; (10) tungstates and molybdates; and (11) silicates.
Are feldspars and hematite examples of native elements?
No. Feldspars and hematite are examples of minerals.
What class of minerals do gold silver and copper belong too?
They are native elements.
