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Minerals resistant to chemical weathering?
Quartz is a mineral that is highly resistant to chemical weathering. Marble is a mineral that is more susceptible to chemical weathering.
What mineral crystallizes last and is most resistant to weathering?
Quartz
Under most weathering conditions which mineral in granites and rhyolites would be most resistant to decomposition?
Quartz, by a long shot. Then orthoclase, muscovite, biotite, in that order
How do you account for the abundance of quartz?
The mineral quartz is abundant in sedimentary rocks because quartz is very durable and resistant to chemical weathering.
Why are beach sediments rich in quartz?
Quartz is highly resistant to weathering during transportation via streams and rivers.
Is quartz resistant to weathering and is it an important component of sands in river beds?
True
Quartz resists chemical weathering more than any other common mineral?
Quartz is a mineral that is the most resistant to chemical weathering. Its resistance is due to the structure of the grains that comprise it.
What mineral in granite rock hardly weathers?
The quartz in granite is the most resistant component to weathering.
Is quartz affected by chemical weathering?
Quartz goes through virtually no chemical weathering, as its form SiO2 is extremely stable. It's nearly unreactive.
What minerals make quartz so resistant to being broken down?
Quartz is a mineral whose atomic elements are bound together tightly, resisting weathering. In general, oxides of silicon form quartz. It's not greately different to window glass, and we know that glass greatly resists weathering.
Why doesn't quartz have cleavage?
In quartz, a three-dimentional framework is developed through the complete sharing of oxygen by adjacent silicon atoms. Thus, all of the bonds in quartz are of the strong silicon-oxygen type. Consequently, quartz is hard, resistant to weathering, and does not have cleavage!
Why does granite or quartzite remain in boulder-sized pieces longer than older rocks that do not contain quartz?
Quartz is a mineral that is resistant to weathering due to its chemistry and crystalline structure. Granite will weather faster than quartzite because granite is only partially quartz in composition.
