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What are the most common mineral groups?
The most common mineral groups are: silicates, carbonates, sulfates, sulfides, halides, and oxides.
What makes a minerals a mineral?
A mineral is defined as "a naturally occurring, homogeneous solid with a defined chemical composition, and a highly ordered crystal matrix." Thus, diamond (carbon) might make it into the mineral class by this definition, but mercury or water would not.
What are the 4 questions used to tell if a substance is a mineral or not?
Is it a solid? Does it have a crystalline structure? Is it a naturally occurring? Does it have a defined chemical composition?
How does the native elements mineral group differ from all of the other mineral groups?
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Which mineral groups exist in a relatively pure form?
Native Elements
What are the most common mineral groups?
The most common mineral groups are: silicates, carbonates, sulfates, sulfides, halides, and oxides.
What is mineral organic or inorganic solid material found in nature?
A mineral is defined as being inorganic.
What do you have to be to be a mineral?
In order to be a mineral, something must be solid, inorganic, naturally-occurring, chemically-defined, AND crystalline. If it is not one of these things, it is not a mineral!
What Mineral must be?
a mineral is defined as any inorganic substance that occurs in nature and has a definite chemical composition.
What is meant by mineral?
The mineral nutrients are defined as all the inorganic elements or inorganic molecules that are required for life.
What are the eight major mineral groups?
Silicate, Native Elements, Carbonates, Halides, Oxides, Phosphates, Sulfates, and Sulfides are the eight major mineral groups
What makes a minerals a mineral?
A mineral is defined as "a naturally occurring, homogeneous solid with a defined chemical composition, and a highly ordered crystal matrix." Thus, diamond (carbon) might make it into the mineral class by this definition, but mercury or water would not.
How hardness defined when identifying minerals?
Hardness is the ability of a mineral to resist being scratched. A diamond is the hardest mineral--which means that no other mineral can scratch it.
When is hardness defined when identifying minerals?
Hardness is the ability of a mineral to resist being scratched. A diamond is the hardest mineral--which means that no other mineral can scratch it.
What is meant by mineral nutrients?
The mineral nutrients are defined as all the inorganic elements or inorganic molecules that are required for life.
What are the two different mineral groups?
Silicate and nonsilicate
What are the two main mineral groups?
Silicate and nonsilicate.
