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Is a mineral a nonliving substance formed in nature yes or no?
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A mineral is a naturally occurring inorganic solid with a crystalline structure and a definite range of chemical formulas.
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What dies minerals mean?
A mineral is a solid, inorganic substance with a crystalline structure that is found in nature. They are neither man made nor living and were not formed from once living things.
Is oil a mineral?
Oil does not meet the definition of a mineral, i.e., a solid, definite chemical formula, formed by nature, with a crystalline structure.
A strontium sulfate whose name means Celestial?
Strontium Sulfate is the sulfate salt of Strontium. It is a white, odorless crystaline substance powder and occurs in nature as the mineral Celestine. So your answer is Celestine.
Do minerals occur in nature?
They all do. This is a scientific definition of a mineral: A mineral is a naturally occurring chemical compound, usually of crystalline form and abiogenic in origin.
What rocks have salt in them?
Sodium chloride is not a rock: in the nature NaCl exist as the mineral halite.
What Has a repeating pattern?
Nonliving, solid material formed in nature with particles arranged in a repeating pattern is a mineral. Atoms of a mineral are arranged in a repeating pattern to form a solid that is called a crystal.
The repeating pattern of a mineral's particles in a solid?
Nonliving, solid material formed in nature with particles arranged in a repeating pattern is a mineral. Atoms of a mineral are arranged in a repeating pattern to form a solid that is called a crystal.
What is material formed from nonliving matter?
Material formed from nonliving matter is soil. Organic dead debris and nonliving debris will break down either naturally or with the help of nature to form new soil.
Can a mineral be formed in nature?
Yes! Of course.
Is it true that the simplest kind of substance in nature is a mineral?
no
What mineral is the hardest known substance in the nature?
Diamond
Why is a inorganic crystalline that is formed in a lab not a mineral?
Minerals are, by definition, found in nature. Thus anything artificially produced in a laboratory is not a mineral, even if it is exactly the same substance as that found in nature. For example, rubies are found in nature as well as being produced artificially, but the artificial ones are not minerals.
What four things must a mineral have to be considered a mineral?
a mineral is defined as any inorganic substance that occurs in nature and has a definite chemical composition.
How do you determine if something is a mineral?
Look if is solid, is it formed in nature.
What Mineral must be?
a mineral is defined as any inorganic substance that occurs in nature and has a definite chemical composition.
What dies minerals mean?
A mineral is a solid, inorganic substance with a crystalline structure that is found in nature. They are neither man made nor living and were not formed from once living things.
A solid mineral that is formed in nature and has particles in a reppeeting pattern?
Crystal
