Common examples are: calcite, calcium carbonate, halite, sylvite, gypsum etc.
For Health e.g. calcium and iron.
Collagen
They can be silicates or vanadates, nitrates or chlorides, carbonates or arsenides etc.
Quartz is the most common mineral in desert sand.
Plants take in salt dissolved in water through their roots. Animals obtain most of their salt from food but may supplement it by licking natural salt deposits.
Mineral salts are not foods.
Some expensive or rare mineral salts must be recycled.
The cause is the irrational use of fertilizers.
Bones are hard and contain mineral salts.
The halide mineral group.
Urine is composed of water, urea, and excess mineral salts.
Potassium mineral salts are used for making some of the enzymes the plants don't need. Potassium mineral salts are used for making some of the enzymes the plants need. Or cheese?......
i believe salts are neither, as they are classified as a mineral
Salts are absorbed by the roots.
Evaporating the water salts are obtained from the solutions.
These salts are absorbed from the sea water.
The Sahara desert is very rich in mineral salts. You see, they have been mined there for nearly 3.5 weeks. It is one of their major exports, since mineral salts are in high demand.