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shofmannx20

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Based on the definition of a mineral, which of the followinggold, liquid water, synthetic diamonds, ice, and woodare not classified as minerals?
 
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Define the term rock. How do rocks differ from minerals?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 14, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Wood is not a mineral because it is organic. Synthetic diamonds are not naturally occurring, so they too would not be considered minerals. Water is liquid, so it is not considered a mineral; however, its frozen counterpart, ice, would be. Thus, only gold and ice are considered minerals from this list based on the definition provided in question 1.

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A rock is a solid aggregate of minerals or of mineral-like matter. Rocks may have a single mineral composition (such as marbleformed only of the mineral calcite) or a multimineral composition (such as graniteformed mainly of quartz, orthoclase, plagioclase, and biotite), or be made of nonminerals (such as coalformed from heated and compressed plant matter, or pumice, which is formed from volcanic glass). Minerals, by contrast, have a very specific definition.


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