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Assuming you are assessing minerals you know to be carbonates anyway, you'd obtain accurate answers only by chemical analysis.
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Is calcite an organic compound?
Calcite is the most stable polymorphous form of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), a very common insoluble mineral salt. Though it contains Carbon and Oxygen it is not considered to be organic.
What carbonate minerals contain?
Carbon.
The most common mineral group in Earth's crust the?
silicates
What is the main mineral found in limestone?
Limestone has the chemical formula CaCO3 This means it has Calcium, Carbon and Oxygen in it. The percentage of each of these elements is as follows: Ca: 40% C: 12% O: 48%
A test for this mineral is you pour acid on it what mineral is this?
Pouring hydrochloric acid, or HCL, over a mineral will cause carbonate minerals to effervesce. This application is called the "acid test," it simply examines the mineral or rocks reaction to acid. Calcite is the most commonly found carbonate mineral and it will fizz during the acid test. Dolomite is another carbonate mineral; however, it will only fizz if it is first powdered. Experiments also show that undiluted vinegar can cause effervescing, but it produces less vivacious results. Some sedimentary rocks that fizz include chalk, coquina, oolic limestone, fossilferous limestone, and micrite. The metamorphic rock marble also fizzes.
Who is a mineral carbonate?
Any mineral that contains carbonate anions. Probably the most common one is limestone.
What kind of mineral in calcite?
Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
What is the most common carbonate mineral?
Calcium carbonate. It has three mineral names, they are chalk, limestone and marble.
The most common mineral group contains what kind of minerals?
The most common mineral group contains silicates.
What form is copper most commonly found in?
It is most often found in the carbonate mineral malachite.
Is calcite an organic compound?
Calcite is the most stable polymorphous form of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), a very common insoluble mineral salt. Though it contains Carbon and Oxygen it is not considered to be organic.
The most common mineral group contains minerals?
Silicates are the most common mineral group.
What is the most abundant carbonate rock?
Limestone, made up of the mineral calcite is the most abundant carbonated rock.
The mineral which effervesces in the acid you use in lab is?
Minerals with the calcium carbonate compound show effervescence. Calcite is the most common carbonate mineral.
How can you tell the difference between diamonds and calcite?
calcite-is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCo3). diamond-is pure crystalline carbon(C).
Which part of the country contains most of Canada's mineral deposit?
the canadian sheild
Why is a crystal of pure calcium carbonate made in a lab not a sample of the mineral calcite?
Well as a chemist i would say it is. Most mineral samples are slightluy contamnated, whereas synthetic calcite is not.
