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Which minerals? Do you mean the mineral elements? In which forms? In which combinations? What do you mean by a mineral anyway? A geologist would not make sense of your use of the word. There about ten elements that plants must have in large quantities or they will die. How much is "large"? Which kinds of plants? What are the alternatives? There are about ten major mineral elements without which no plant can live, and depending on who you listen to, rather more trace mineral elements. If you get any of those in the wrong form it is harmful. If you get too little of it it is harmful, either for you or a plant. Some plants need more of some elements than others; for example, grapes and bananas need lots of potassium, and they need it in the form of soluble inorganic compounds, such as potassium nitrate. Organic forms such as potassium carbide would not do. Pure potassium would not do. Give any plant too little zinc and it will die. Give it more than a few parts per million and you will poison it.
Apart from the twenty or thirty elements that you need in your food, there are about fifty or sixty that are either useless or poisonous. Fortunately we don't often run across them on large quantities. If you cannot say which inorganic minerals you mean, the question has no answer. Ordinary soil is nearly all inorganic minerals.
Maybe it would help you to think of your own need for water; if you got none you would die in a few days or maybe a week or two. If I held your head under water you would die in a few minutes. So is water good or bad? It depends on how you get it and how much you get. It is the same with food and it is the same with foods for plants.
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What minerals do plants store?
Plants store the mineral water as a source of nutrients, an example would be a cactus plant, storing large amount of water as the condition that it survives in hardly recieves rain.
Plant cell walls contain a large amount of what carbohydrate?
carbohydrates
How plant convert inorganic to organic?
plants
What are the 2 inorganic materials needed by the plant to carry out photosynthesis?
Carbon dioxide and sunlight are the two inorganic materials needed by the plant to carry out photosynthesis.
Is minerals an organic nutrient?
Minerals can appear in both organic and inorganic form. Minerals mined and extracted from the earth are typically inorganic salts (you can have organic salts), crystals or amorphous matter not containing combined carbon. Carbon by itself is 'mineral' for example diamond, graphite, or charcoal are inorganic (not organic) forms of carbon. Growing things and carbonaceous chemicals are considered organic. If the minerals are extracted from a plant source and they are considered organic. Organic minerals can also be made by attaching the inorganic mineral to a piece of a plant structure, the most common form being amino acid chelation. An example of this is magnesium amino acid chelate, a type of organic magnesium often found in high quality nutritional supplements.
Why is coal not considered to be mineral?
Coal is not considered a mineral because it is not inorganic; it is made of ancient plant matter that has been compressed over time; therefore, it is carbon based.
Is a dock a plant a mineral or weapon?
A dock is a plant with large soft green leaves.
What is something that come from the earth but is neather plant or animal?
Something that comes from the earth that is neither plant nor animal would generally be classified as "mineral" or "inorganic".
Why is air not a mineral?
Minerals are defined as naturally occurring solids having a crystalline structure, a definite range of chemical composition, and being inorganic. Air does not meet the requirements for definition as a mineral.
What minerals do plants store?
Plants store the mineral water as a source of nutrients, an example would be a cactus plant, storing large amount of water as the condition that it survives in hardly recieves rain.
Is fertilizer a plant mineral?
Yes, fertilizer is a plant mineral.Specifically, fertilizer contains minerals. The minerals derive from plants when the fertilizers are considered organic. They derive from artificial, chemical or synthetic ingredients when the fertilizers are considered inorganic.
Is oxygen mineral?
No. It isn't a solid and minerals must be a solid substance No it is a Gas. Minerals are solid inorganic (not naturally produced my plant or animal) substances. It is tequnecly and element
Is wood a mineral?
None. A mineral is a naturally occurring, inorganic, homogeneous solid with a definite (but not fixed) chemical composition and an ordered atomic arrangement. As wood is completely organic, there are no minerals in wood.
Is a plant organic or inorganic?
organic
Plant cell walls contain a large amount of what carbohydrate?
carbohydrates
Can you plant seeds without soil?
Hydroponics (from the Greek words hydro water and ponos labor) is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil. Terrestrial plants may be grown with their roots in the mineral nutrient solution only or in an inert medium, such as perlite, gravel, or mineral wool. Researchers discovered in the 19th century that plants absorb essential mineral nutrients as inorganic ions in water. In natural conditions, soil acts as a mineral nutrient reservoir but the soil itself is not essential to plant growth. When the mineral nutrients in the soil dissolve in water, plant roots are able to absorb them. When the required mineral nutrients are introduced into a plant's water supply artificially, soil is no longer required for the plant to thrive. Almost any terrestrial plant will grow with hydroponics. Hydroponics is also a standard technique in biology research and teaching.
Is plant Organic or Inorganic?
Plants are organic
