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Why aren't solids minerals?

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10y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

A mineral is determined as a lattice-structured repeating crystal. While all minerals are solids, there are solids which are not lattice-structured, not repeating, and not crystalline. As a result, those solids are not minerals.

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