The British Geological Survey describe Fuller's Earth as a mineral.
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Fuller's Earth is a rock made up mainly from the minerals montmorillonite and/or palygorskite (attapulgite).
Erm, no coal isn't a mineral - it is a rock. I wouldn't describe it as being extracted from the bowels of the Earth - it's mined.
it forms to a mineral
Pumice is an extrusive igneous rock, not a mineral.
It looks rather like buff colored powdered chalk.
It is both. The metal gold exists as a mineral in the Earth, and its distinctive colour is used to describe the colouring of other objects. A similar thing happens with orange, the colour and the fruit.
Nothing about fullers earth in the Bible
The diamond is the hardest rock (or mineral).
You have to know chemistry because you learn rock and mineral. You study earth and rock and mineral.
mineral
a Rock.
sillicate
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oxygen 46.6%
Erm, no coal isn't a mineral - it is a rock. I wouldn't describe it as being extracted from the bowels of the Earth - it's mined.
silica
Obsidian, the rock that occurs when lava and water mix.
Intrusive igneous rock.