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What are the different between a mineral and a rock name five common rock forming minerals?
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Name five common rock forming mineral?
the five most common rock-forming minerals are -quartz -feldspars -micas -amphiboles -pyroxenes
Why is color not a good mineral property to use to identify minerals?
Simply because colour has nothing to do with any other property of the substance in question.
Any of a group of rock forming minerals the most abudant in the earths crust?
The most abundant mineral group in the crust is the silicate mineral group.
What is the difference between ore minerals and rock-forming minerals?
A mineral or an aggregate of minerals from which a valuable constituent, especially a metal, can be profitably mined or extracted is known as ore, while the ordinary rock does not has any economical value.
Which of the rock-forming mineral groups makes up the largest group of minerals in Earth's crust?
oxygen 46.6%
What are the common mineral?
rock forming minerals
What are some some forming minerals?
There are many rock forming minerals but some examples are peridotite,gabbro,basalt etc.Olivine is used in jewellery and a rock forming mineral.
Why nitrogen is included in mineral but it is not mineral?
Minerals are formed from different elements. Nitrogen, (which is a gas in its natural state) makes up 78% of earths atmosphere. Minerals are formed through a biogeochemical process, generally forming crystals.
How does a mineral occur?
a mineral occurs from two substances or liquids forming together creating small minerals
How does minerals occur?
a mineral occurs from two substances or liquids forming together creating small minerals
Why is color not a good property to use to identify mineral?
because the color of a mineral can be the same as some other minerals but all minerals have a different property between them
Which groupe of rock forming minerals contain the mineral gypsum?
The group is the Sulfates.
Different between spring water and mineral water?
Mineral water has minerals added, as where spring water is directly bottled at source without added minerals or vitamins
When does a mineral have density?
There is a large number of minerals and different minerals have different density.
Do minerals always stay minerals?
No. Minerals may be changed by being melted and thus forming new different minerals upon freezing again. The new mineral will depend upon which other minerals were in the melt at the time. Further, some minerals e.g. Mercury sulphide, may be destroyed by heating, just leaving mercury behind. Reduction or oxidation of a mineral would be other ways of changing a mineral into another type.
What happens to the mineral when a rock becomes metamorphic?
Minerals may get changed to other minerals forming a new rock. Mineral grains also become aligned in response to the increased pressure.
Why isn't cement a mineral?
No. A rock is an assemblage of at least two different minerals. One mineral can't be two or more minerals.
