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What is a mineral?

Published on Feb 28, 2017

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What is a mineral?

I can answer that and then you can too!
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A mineral is a SOLID

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A mineral is NATURALLY OCCURING

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A mineral is INORGANIC (nonliving)

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A mineral has a FIXED CHEMICAL COMPOSITION....

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Example: silica is SiO2

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Minerals have...

crystals (An internal arrangement of Atoms)
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So by definition

  • A mineral is a naturally occuring, inorganic solid with a definite crystal structure!
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Tammy Hershey