01:460:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Biomineralization, Industrial Mineral, Chemical Formula

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Geological Sciences
• Course: 01:460:100
• Professor: Mark Feigenson

Document Summary

Mineralogist - people who specialize in the study of minerals - they discover (50-100) new minerals every year. Naturally occurring solid, formed by geologic processes, that has a crystalline structure and a definable chemical composition. Industrial mineral - raw materials for manufacturing. Ore minerals - sources of valuable metals. Naturally occurring - true minerals are formed in nature. Solid a state of matter that can maintain its shape indefinitely. Formed by geologic processes minerals can form by the freezing of molten. Liquids and gases aren"t minerals rock, by precipitation out of a water solution, or by chemical reactions within or on the surface of preexisting rocks are a by-product of living organisms. Biogenic minerals materials that are produced by geologic processes but. Crystalline structure the atoms that make up a mineral are fixed in an orderly. Definable chemical composition it is possible to write a chemical formula for a. Almost all minerals have carbon bonds pattern known as crystalline solid.