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What is the definition of minerals?
Minerals are the components in the Earth that combine to form rocks. Minerals are inorganic naturally occurring substances, have a definite range of chemical composition, are solids, and have a crystalline structure.Minerals are solid, inorganic substances made from a combination of chemical elements.a solid, naturally occurring inorganic substance.
Is pumice natural or manmade?
Pumice is a naturally occurring volcanic rock.
What minerals are found in Honolulu?
Hawai'i has numerous minerals. In fact, you could probably find all known minerals here in Hawai'i (but not occurring naturally). The most abundant naturally occurring minerals in Hawai'i are: # Basalt Magnesium Silicate (from Volcanoes) - e.g. lava rock, blue rock, obsidian # Calcium Carbonate (from Coral and hard shell sea creatures) - e.g. Sand
How are minerals and rocks similar?
Both are solid and naturally occurring materials with chemical compositions. They also make up the earth around us
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.
Are most minerals made of rock?
No. It is more appropriate to say that rocks are naturally occurring substances made up of of minerals.
Why aren't diamonds made in a laboratory considered minerals?
Minerals are required to be naturally occurring. Synthetic diamonds are not.
What naturally occurring substance are rocks made of besides plants or animals?
Minerals
What is a naturally occurring aggregate of minerals?
Rock
Are Quartz and coal minerals or only naturally occurring substances?
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Is silver man made or naturally occurring?
Naturally occurring (it is an element), the metal occurs naturally in its pure, free form (native silver), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.
Can a mineral be natrually occurring?
By definition, minerals are naturally occurring inorganic substances.
Are minerals manmade?
No. By definition a mineral is naturally occurring.
What is minerals in rocks?
naturally occurring inorganic matter
Why are brick and glass not classified as minerals?
They are not naturally occurring
Not naturally occurring?
Something that is not naturally occurring is man made.
Is tungsten naturally occurring or man-made?
naturally occurring.
