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Is rock a chemical

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Kinda sorta not really.

Any given specific type of mineral is going to have a chemical formula. However, "rock" is generic enough that we don't know what it is (for example: it could be an aggregate of several different types of minerals) and therefore can't give a chemical formula for it.

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