Here is a different types of silicate minerals list where you’ll learn what a silicate mineral is and why they are important. Here there are lists of categories, families, and classes of silicate minerals with their crystal structures. Overall what makes a mineral a silicate is the presence of silicon-oxygen tetrahedra as the building blocks. […]
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Tetrahedron is a word that sounds very fancy and maybe you know the basic shape is a triangular pyramid. But what is a tetrahedron shape and is it just as fancy as the word? I found all the most interesting features of tetrahedra (which is the plural of tetrahedron), without too much cumbersome jargon so
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Here explains the three main classifications of rock where you can connect actual crystals you have seen before to the jargon-y nomenclature. Even if you consider yourself knowledgeable about crystals, you may have never heard of terms like “plagioclase” and “feldspar” – even though these are some of the most common constituents of rocks where
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Magnetite is the most magnetic natural mineral. Magnetite was not so named because it was magnetic, rather, it was found in the area Magnesia, and magnets were so named because they were like magnetite! People made the first compasses of magnetite, then called lodestone. Magnetite is the most iron-rich ore used to make steel, so
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What is crystal in physics is different than what people commonly refer to crystals. People will call basically any rock a crystal, especially one that looks nice. That’s fine, but in physics the reason crystals are distinct are because of what they can do. To be a crystal by the physics definition, the molecules have
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