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Q: When exposed to heat pressure or fluids what can happen to mineral grains?
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When water combines with mineral grains do the grains become smaller or larger?

When water combines with mineral grains, the grains become larger. The increase in size of mineral grains strains the rock material and weakens it.


What is a mineral grains?

Mineral grains are crystals or pieces of crystals that vary widely in chemicalcomposition


Does pumic have mineral grains?

Pumice does not have grains.


What changes mineral grains into rock without melting them?

They can be "cemented" as some mineral such as calcite, aragonite, hematite, or even silica precipitates out of solution between them. Or clay minerals between the grains can harden under pressure and heat well short of their melting point.


Which process squeezes fluids from between individual grains?

Erosion is the process that squeezes fluids between individual grains. This is known as a long process.


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.


What kind of mineral has a large grains?

Intrusive


What is a banded mineral?

A banded mineral is a mineral that has grains that are arranged in a particular pattern of flat layers or forms swirls.


Is sandstone a mineral?

No. Sandstone is not a mineral, it is a rock type.


What mineral is used for making tiles?

Clay grains


What are the small spaces in between mineral grains?

pores


What type of grains does metamorphic rock have?

Metamorphic rock may have coarse, flattened, or aligned mineral grains.