A rock is a solid object made up of many minerals. If you imagine a Pizza for a moment...the pizza is a rock. It is made up of different things, like cheese, and pepperoni, and sauce, and crust. The toppings are like minerals. Cheese alone is not a pizza. This is similar to a rock, where one mineral does not make up a rock.
A rock is a solid object made up of many minerals. If you imagine a pizza for a moment...the pizza is a rock. It is made up of different things, like cheese, and pepperoni, and sauce, and crust. The toppings are like minerals. Cheese alone is not a pizza. This is similar to a rock, where one mineral does not make up a rock.
rocks are diffrent because they have a little minerals in it #nini
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∙ 14y agoA requirement for a mineral is that it have a crystalline structure. Glass does not have a crystalline structure. Minerals are naturally occurring. A glass is not (except for volcanic glass) , although a glass could be made out of a mineral, which is naturally occurring.
Rock gypsum
Foliation
Pumice is an extrusive igneous rock, not a mineral.
A rock is made out of many different minerals. A mineral is a building block that makes up rocks. A rock is like a pizza, and the minerals that make up this 'rock pizza' are things like the crust, the sauce, the pepperoni, and the cheese. Cheese alone does not make pizza, much like one mineral will not make a rock.
a mineral
A rock is made of different minerals.
Rock gypsum
sulfur rock
No. A rock is an assemblage of at least two different minerals. One mineral can't be two or more minerals.
Each rock has a different composition.
mineral
No. Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks are three different categories of rock.
Mineral
A mineral is a naturally occuring chemical compound. A mineral is different from a rock/boulder which can be an aggregate of minerals, or non minerals and does not have a specific chemical composition as a mineral does
Foliation
arrangement of mineral grains within the rock
A jade is actually both a mineral and a rock.