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What happens to radioactive uranium as soon as a mineral containing it crystallizes from magma?
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Is autunite radioactive?
Autunite is a mineral containing Uranium and is therefore radioactive.
Which mineral pyroxene or orthoclase crystallizes from magma first?
pyroxene
What is the most radioactive mineral?
Most radioactive materials in mineral collections are Uranium minerals. The Uranyl ion produces minerals with characteristically yellow/green, acicular, crystals that can be very attractive.
What mineral is probably the source for radioactive isotopes derived from nuclear reactors?
uranium is probably the source for radioactive isotopes derived from nuclear reactors
Unstable atomic nuclei decay over time into stable nuclei causing a mineral to be?
radioactive
Is autunite radioactive?
Autunite is a mineral containing Uranium and is therefore radioactive.
What mineral crystallizes at the highest temperature?
olivine
Rock salt crystallizes from what mineral?
Halite
How was the mineral abernathyite formed?
Abernathyite, a radioactive mineral, is a rare secondary mineral that can coat fractures in bleached asphaltic sandstone containing a Colorado Plateau-type uranium deposit.
What mineral crystallizes last and is most resistant to weathering?
Quartz
Which mineral pyroxene or orthoclase crystallizes from magma first?
pyroxene
What happens to minerals containing iron when they are exposed to the air?
The iron may form a new mineral that is like rust.
What is an yttrialite?
An yttrialite is a radioactive mineral.
When heated mineral-rich water seeps into cracks in the Earth cools and crystallizes as minerals an can form what?
A vien
What mineral crystallizes in sea water?
Sand, it's made of weathered quartz often called silica(what glass is made of).
Which Radioactive mineral has the chemical element 90?
thorite
Is thorium a mineral?
Thorium is a solid, natural, radioactive metal.
