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What is the name of the specific molecule that makes up the silicate mineral family?
Silicon-Oxygen Tetrahedral
What mineral makes up table salt?
Salt is composed of the chemicals Chlorine and Sodium. (NaCl) salt is a mineral, it is not comprised of minerals, it is comprised of chemicals.
What is the calcium carbonate cycle?
Plants and animals that secret lime (CaCO3) flourish in tropical seas. Shells Of CaCO3 in many pile up in shallow off shore waters where they cemented themselves into limestone. Slightly acid grown water is a solvent of limestone, and creates tunnels, caves, and even caverns along cracks or joints in the rock. Some of the dissolved calcium carbonate is redeposit in caves and caverns stalactites and stalagmites.
Is mineral water an element mixture or compound?
Mineral water contains other elements or compounds too. They contain elements and compounds like Sodium, magnesium,macro nutrients,calcium and other minerals. So mineral water is a mixture of compounds.
A mineral that is made up of only one element is called?
A pure mineral.
What is a major comound in deep cave stalactites?
Stalactites and stalagmites are normally made up from a mineral called Calcite.
Where are stalagmites and stalactites?
Stalactites and stalagmites are found in limestone caves. Stalactites hang from the ceiling, and stalagmites come up from the ground.
Where stalactites and stalagmites are found?
Stalactites and stalagmites are found in limestone caves. Stalactites hang from the ceiling, and stalagmites come up from the ground.
How are stalactits formed?
Stalactites are formed through calcium carbonate deposits made by mineral rich water dripping through the ceiling and onto the floor of the cave. The water evaporates, leaving the calcium carbonate behind. These deposits form a stalactite, like an icicle hanging from the cave roof. Don't mix Stalactites and Stalagmites up, Stalactites are on the Ceiling (C in stalactites) and Stalagmites are on the ground (G in stalagmites).Remember this way: The Mites go up, and the Tites go down.
What is the memory key for remembering which are stalactites and which are stalagmites?
Think of the letter 'g' in stalagmites, as from the ground up.
Do stalactites grow up from the bottom of a cavern due to the deposit of minerals over time?
No those are stalagmites. stalactites grow from calcite (or mineral) deposits from water dripping from cracks from the ceiling. :) hope this helped
Which formation in a cave rise from the floor stalagmites or stalactites?
stalagmites are on the cave floor, stalactites are on the cave roof. stalagmites are mighty like Hercules, they hold the ceiling up. +++ An easy mnemonic: "c for ceiling, g for ground". Another is "Stalagmites might reach the roof [and sometimes do, forming a 'column'] and stalactites hang on tight."
What is the opposite of stalagmites?
The opposite would be stalactites, which form from the ceiling down, while stalagmites form from the floor up. (The venerable mnemonic is that stalactites hold tite/tight to the ceiling.)
What deposit is formed at a roof of a cave?
Stalactites are found hanging from the roof of a cave, as opposed to stalagmites, which grow up from the floor. Remembering the difference is easy - stalactites are "tite" to the ceiling!
Do stalagmites hang up or down?
Stalagmites grow from the floor, stalagtites hang from the ceiling. I remember this by thinking stalagmites "might reach the ceiling" and stalactites are "tightly held"
What rock formations hang in caves?
Stalactites and stalagmites are rock formations that hang in caves. Stalactites are formed from water dripping from the ceiling and gradually depositing minerals that build up over time. Stalagmites, on the other hand, form from water dripping from the stalactites and building up on the cave floor.
What do you call the stony conical projections that hang from the roof of a cave?
Stalactites. Those growing up from the floor are Stalagmites. Their "stony" material is usually the mineral calcite (crystalline calcium carbonate).
