Granite.
According to the website listed in the Related Links there are about 71 minerals. The list (if you aren't sure about one of them, just ignore it, i am only a kid and i ain't perfect): sulphur, talc, perlite, gravel, opal, peat, salt, turquoise, tufa, silver, pumicite, potash, phosphate, uranium, tin, titanium, aeolites, tripoli, vermiculite, amethyst, limestone, sandstaone, plagioclase, plumeagate, brines, llanite, chalk, granite, petrified wood, hornblende amphibole, coal, aluminum, calcite, celecite, quartz, topaz, tektites, asbestos, gypsum, bitotite, microcline feldspar, cinnabar, fossils, antimony, asphalt, barite, beryllium, basalt, bismuth, bromine, caliche, copper, diatomite, dolomite, feldspar, fluorspar, gold, greensand, guano, iron, zinc, lignite, magnesite, mica, molybdenum.
Dori Dilson was Stargirl's best friend at Mica High. In Love, Stargirl, Stargirl says to Leo [in her 'World's Longest Letter' to him], "Some of the kids at Mica High turned against me. Some turned away from me. Dori was the only one who did neither."
There's no way to answer your question. More accurately, there is no way to answer your question without sounding like a smart-ass. We can't tell which has more mass unless we know how much of each you have to begin with! If you've got a pound of quartz and 10 pounds of pyrite, the pyrite is more massive, because objects with greater mass have greater weight. If you've got only an ounce of pyrite, your one-pound sample of quartz is more massive. Here's a question for you: What weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks? Many people who answer too quickly say, "Rocks." And they'd be wrong. Since both weigh a pound, they have the same weight and, therefore, have the same mass. In other words, they both contain the same amount of matter. Perhaps what you meant to ask is What has the greater density? Density is mass per unit volume. So, if you had, say, a cubic foot of quartz and a cubic foot of pyrite, then you could ask Which is more massive? or Which has greater mass? That would be a question we could answer definitively. Quartz has a density of about 2.65 grams per cubic centimeter. Pyrite's density is about 4.9 g/cc. So a cubic centimeter of pyrite is more massive than a cc of quartz.
No. It is neither organic nor a molecule. Silicon dioxide consists only of silicon and oxygen. By definition, an organic compound must contain carbon. Second, silicon dioxide forms a covalent network rather than molecules.
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The most common metalloid elements (those behaving between the metals and non-metals) are: B, Si, Ge, Te, As, & Sb. Of these common ones only Si (silicon) occurs in sand, quartz (Silicon dioxide), granite (feldspar + quartz + mica), feldspar (alumino silicate), and clay (oxidized alumino silicate.) So the answer is Silicon.
No, igneous rocks are not made up of only one mineral. They are typically composed of a variety of minerals, which are formed by the cooling and solidification of molten rock material. Some common minerals found in igneous rocks include quartz, feldspar, and mica.
Rocks are composed of minerals.
yes you could only find feldspar
Purple jade is actually a rock, made up of several minerals (quartz, feldspar, jadeite, and acmite are the most common), whereas amethyst is just a violet variety of quartz (as such is only a mineral).
Felsic rocks mostly contain silicates such as feldspars and quartz, mafic rocks are ferrromagnesian, containing mostly pyroxene and olivine, ultramafic rocks only contain pyroxene and olivine, and rocks neither felsic nor mafic mostly contain plagioclase feldspar, biotite mica, and amphibole.
i thought they were made of copper and zincand it's are pennies made out of mica schist not is
Rocks are made of minerals. Only a few minerals are rock forming and most rock is made from a combination of the commonest of these such as feldspars, quartz, mica, olivine, calcite, pyroxene and amphiboles.
Rocks are made of minerals. Only a few minerals are rock forming and most rock is made from a combination of the commonest of these. feldspars, quartz, mica, olivine, calcite, pyroxene and amphiboles
yes NO. It helps form igneous rocks like granite along with mica and feldspar and other minerals, in basalts and gabbros there is no quartz but it does form silicates like olivine. When weathered out of igneous rocks like granite it will eventually be found on beaches as sand grains. It is found in metamorphic rocks where it usually forms large lenses, and in fault systems as masses of quartz and other churned up rock powder. It forms the major gangue or waste mineral in many metal mines.
You can only make a rough guess and you would also need to feel it and gauge its density and any visible structures it had or components it was made from. For instance it the rock is white, soft, light and contains lots of fossil shells it is probably made out of calcium carbonate (a limestone). If it is light in weight, hard and made of visible grains, it is probably a sandstone and made mostly of quartz. If the rock is heavy, dark in colour, very solid and with visible crystals it is probably an intrusive igneous rock made up of feldspar, pyroxenes and quartz.
Quartz does not show alteration. Micas in themselves are alteration minerals. They form out of an alteration process... (Trust the geologist, not the amateur) This is wrong: well i think that it is mica that is the only one that shows no alteration