GLGY 209 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Biomineralization, Crystal Habit
6 Apr 2016
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Minerals are naturally occurring mineral substances that are formed by geologic processes, with a deinable chemical composiion and an internal structure characterized by an orderely arrangement of atoms ions, or molecules in a crystalline laice. Breaking that blocl down further, we know that minerals are. When you zoom into one imes 100000000 or something like it you see that all the atoms line up in an orderly fashion to make a crystalline laice. Biogenic minerals are new to the mineral classiicaion. In crystalline laice material, atoms occur in a speciic patern. Minerals can form from: the solidiicaion of melt precipitaion of a water soluion difusion through a solid ( the metabolism of organisms and precipitaion from gas. Minerals are classiied by: lustre streak color hardness speciic gravity crystal habit cleavage. The most convenient way to classify minerals is by their chemical composiion. Mineral classes include: silicates oxides sulides sulfates halides carbonates and naive metals.
