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looking through a microscope at super
thin slices of a rock lets you see its
mineral
composition this is the rock partite
made up of small crystals including
Olivine and
pyxine even a simple black basalt rock
spewed from a volcano becomes a
patchwork of colorful minerals it's sort
of like a fruit cake you know you slice
it open there's nuts and there's dried
fruit fruit and maybe some lemon peel
it's made of lots of little things and
it's not until you slice into that fruit
cake that you see all the stuff inside
that makes it
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special what makes them special is not
only their beauty minerals have
remarkable chemical and physical
properties and are a source of many of
the elements Nature's building block
that is why they're essential in our
modern world to make everything from
skyscrapers taller to mobile phones
smaller extract the element malbin from
the mineral malite to make steel
stronger or add a pinch of cobalt and
your iPhone battery will last longer
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minerals are the fundamental building
block of
societies we wouldn't have televisions
we wouldn't have automobiles we wouldn't
have buildings without the mineral
riches that we
have so were the remarkable chemical
properties of minerals also key in
creating
life if so Earth would need more than it
started with
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