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What are the characteristics that make a mineral difference from other solid material of the earth?
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What earth material is antimony found in?
Antimony is found in the mineral stibnite.
Do igneous rocks that form inside the Earth's crust look different from the igneous rocks that form on the Earth's surface?
Yes. Igneous rock that forms on the surface will have small mineral crystals, or in some cases no mineral crystals. Igneous rock that forms below the surface will have larger mineral crystals, from the additional cooling time afforded by the insulating effects of the surrounding Earth material.
What is a dust strom?
A body turbulent air that contains within it an appreciable amount of fine mineral based material that has been whipped up from the Earth's surface.
What material is the lower mantle made of?
The earth's lower mantle is composed of an olivine mineral with a perovskite structure.
What mineral can be used to radiometrically date earth's age?
Zircon is the mineral that is most commonly used to date the age of the earth.
What is the difference between mineral and forest wealth?
mineral is found below the earth while forest is above the earth
Why doesn't the ESRT chart give characteristics for every mineral found on earth?
Not all minerals give characteristics
What earth material is antimony found in?
Antimony is found in the mineral stibnite.
Does the ESRT chart give characteristics for every mineral found on earth?
yes
Why is diamond different from most metals?
Diamond is not a metal, it is a mineral: the hardest material on earth.
What is the difference between searching and mining?
Mining is work to remove material to recover a mineral or substance. It's the large-scale blasting, digging, loading, transporting and processing of earth, rock or other material. Searching or prospecting seeks only to locate, map and assess the distribution and concentration of a mineral or substance to gauge the cost-effectiveness of actually engaging in mining.
Hardest material on earth?
The hardest material in the world is Wurtzite, it is very much same as that of a diamond but is more complex than diamond and thus makes it stronger than diamond. Wurtzite boron nitride becomes 80% stronger after the re-orientation process, and this makes it the hardest substance found on earth.
Is quarts the hardest mineral on earth?
Diamond is the hardest mineral on earth.
Do igneous rocks that form inside the Earth's crust look different from the igneous rocks that form on the Earth's surface?
Yes. Igneous rock that forms on the surface will have small mineral crystals, or in some cases no mineral crystals. Igneous rock that forms below the surface will have larger mineral crystals, from the additional cooling time afforded by the insulating effects of the surrounding Earth material.
What mineral is common in Earth's mantle?
Olivine is the most common mineral in the Earth's mantle.
What was the goal of the Mohole project?
The original goal was to learn more about the characteristics of the material found at the interface of the earth's crust and the underlying mantle.
What materials dissolve on Earth?
All the materials. The difference is the time that a material need to dissolve. David Smith,
