Science MIneral Words
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- Hematite
- Primary ore of irons used to produce iron for steel.
- Flourite
- Used to make flouride toothpast pottery and hydroflouric acid
- Zinc
- Used to make "copper" pennies brass and nails
- Gypsum
- Primary use is for sheet rock or wallboard
- Copper
- used to make electrical wires brass bronze coins plumbing
- Gold
- Used in dentristry medicine jewlery / can be made thinner then human hair
- Silica
- used in manufacture of computer chips glass ceremaics
- Silver
- Used in photography chemissty coins mirrors
- Mica
- May be ground up to add sparkle to paints and cosmetics
- flint
- used to make arrowheads spear points and knives
- Sulfur
- Used to make phosfate fertilizer and soft drinks
- Limestone
- composed of calicium carbonite and is used in constuctuion
- aluminum
- Most abundant elelment used to make containers and deoderants
- galena
- primary source of lead used to make batteries fishing weights.....
- halite
- Used as food seasoning water softener and de icer
- The Process be which atoms are arranges to form a material with a crystal structure is refferd to as
- cysatlization
- What affects the size of crystals formed from magma
- Rate at which mineral cools/ Chemical Composition/ Amount of gas mineral contains
- How do minerals form from a hot water solution
- Hot water molds elements into propeties minerals contain/ When water cools the minerals form`
- A rock that contains a metal or economcally useful material is called a
- ore
- The 5 characteristics that minereal must have are:
- inorganic definite chemical compostion, naturally ocoouring, solid, crystal structure
- Describe the three types of mines
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Strip Mines: scrape away at soil to expose ore..
Open pit minning: big pit that hass ore
Shaft Mine: long tunnels that have veins of ore - A solid mixture of two or metals is
- alloy
- Why cant u rely on a single test when u are trying to identify a mieral
- You cant take apart a mineral to see its properties. MEaning that 2 minereals could havee the same color or streak but all minerals have differnt atoms that make them up. and once they are in the mineral u cant take them out
- What is the difference between and elemnet and a compound
- A compound has to elements/ atoms chemically combined while a element is made up of one single atom
- What is the difference between a mixture and a compound
- a mixture consits of 2 or more substances but are NOT CHEMICALLY COMBINED
- the gerologist have identified and classifiens the crystal structure of a mineral into haw many catergories
- 6
- List 7 propeties
- Hardnes....color.....luster.....streak.....cleaveg and fracture....density.....crystal sytems.....and also the special properties