what is the importance of halite?(mineral)?
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< Halite (Sodium chloride--Salt): Used in human and animal diet, food seasoning and food preservation, used to prepare sodium hydroxide, soda ash, caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, chlorine, metallic sodium, used in ceramic glazes, metallurgy, curing of hides, mineral waters, soap manufacture, home water softeners, highway de-icing, photography, herbicide, fire extinguishing, nuclear reactors, mouthwash, medicine (heat exhaustion), in scientific equipment for optical parts. Single crystals used for spectroscopy, ultraviolet and infrared transmission.
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It's the latice structure of the crystal. Also, sugar molecules are a LOT larger than salt.
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Imagine life without chemistry....we are surrounded by chemistry! start looking around you and you'll see why chem is so important. the chemical industry produces materials that are vital to the industrialized world. Everything that you use at home are the products of chemistry, even your cosmetics. Imagine how will your breakfast turn into energy without the chemistry.
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An ore has minerals or metals suspended in a base, unwanted material that needs to be refined to make the pure mineral or metal usable.\n\nA gem is a crystaline material that has some intrinsic value.
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hardness, luster, clevage, composition, crystal structure\n\niron is useful also in the mineral gypsum they use it to make drywall\n\nmost gems are valueable because they form extremely slow making them rare, they are also the very hardest type of mineral
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Sodium (Which retains water in the body and is an electrolyte), sugar, probably some potassium, and lots of water. \n\nElectrolytes are ions, such as sodium, potassium, or chloride, required by cells to regulate the electric charge and flow of water molecules across the cell membrane. -Which means they make it easier for your cells to work, process things, and remove waste with water.
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Neither. \n\nUsing the term silica is not specific enough to describe a mineral. There are forms of biogenic silica that cannot be considered a mineral by definition. \n\nTo be a mineral the silica would have to be quartz, or some other mineral formed from SiO2, of which there are many. \n\nSilicone dioxide may be used as a trace nutrient and apparently plays some role in bone, skin and hair. However, there is no established recommended daily value, and it is likely that humans receive enough SiO2 dissolved in their tap water to satisfy the need. Many public water supplies actually have more SiO2 dissolved in the water than they do calcium carbonate.  I know this from my own laboratory analyses of drinking water while in grad school. \n\nHowever, I am still saying that silica is not a nutrient in rocks, because it must be dissolved before it can be utilized as a nutrient, and eating silica in solid form would not be of any benefit because it would not dissolve in the digestive system
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Minerals is a general term for inorganic substances such as potassium, chlorine, sodium, magnesium, iron, sulphur, etc....basically any element other than carbon found in the ground through which the water flows.
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Hematite is a silvery black stone.It was formerly known as bloodstone beause of the reddish 'soot' it leaves when it's worked on a lapidary wheel.It's a good 'worry stone'.It's great for grounding and for alleviating depression.Tigers eye is a good balance stone.It's main uses are for courage,energy and protection.It can also be used in money attracting spells.You can find either one in New Age shops or online.Both are pretty inexpensive.
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Chloride prevents bacteria and other organisms from growing in water, though it does have a chemical taste that some find unpleasant.  Otherwise in relatively low concentrations it is not harmful to health, and in fact chlorine is an essential electrolyte.  \n\nChlorine gas is of course, poisonous, but that's mostly because it is corrosive.
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"Salt" used to be one of the most precious commodities in the world, because it could be used for anything like curing meat and adding taste.  Thus, "salt of the earth" means something very valuable and useful on the earth.
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I don't know but if you click on the site below you'll find out real quick. They know minerals.
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Potassium iodide (also called KI) is a salt of stable (not radioactive) iodine. Stable iodine is an important chemical needed by the body to make thyroid hormones. Most of the stable iodine in our bodies comes from the food we eat. KI is stable iodine in a medicine form.
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Bornite is an important copper ore mineral. It ranks up there with many of the other copper ores such as chalcocite, chalcopyrite, covellite, digenite, cuprite and tetrahedrite. \nUses: Major ore of copper and as mineral specimens.\n\nSo, basically copper can be extracted from it.
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Minerals are natural compounds formed through geological processes. The term "mineral" encompasses not only the material's chemical composition but also the mineral's structure. Minerals range in composition from pure elements and simple salts to very complex silicates with thousands of known forms (organic compounds are usually excluded). The study of minerals is called mineralogy.\n\nAn ore is a volume of rock containing components or minerals in a mode of occurrence which renders it valuable for mining. An ore must contain materials which are:\n\nvaluable \nin concentrations which can be profitably mined \nable to be extracted from waste rock by mineral processing techniques. \nOre deposits are mineral deposits defined as being economically recoverable. Mineral deposits may include those bodies of mineralisation which are uneconomic resources, of too low a grade or tonnage or technically impossible for extraction of the contained metal.\n\nWhat is valuable to mine is generally considered in terms of purely economic considerations. However, cultural, strategic or social goals of nations, tribes and individuals may render economically unfeasible bodies of rock valuable for extraction, for instance ochre, some clays and ornamental stones which are of religious, cultural or sentimental value to a population. Here, value is placed on the rock in non-economic terms.\n\nOre is thus an economic entity, not a physical entity. Fluctuations in commodity prices will determine what rock is considered valuable and hence ore, and what rock is not valuable and is considered waste. Similarly, the costs of extraction may fluctuate, for example with fuel costs, rendering mining unprofitable and turning ore into waste.\n\nThe grade or contained concentration of an ore mineral, or metal, as well as its form of occurrence, will directly affect the costs associated with mining the ore. The cost of extraction must thus be weighted against the contained metal value of the rock and a 'cut-off grade' used to define what is ore and what is waste.\n\nOre minerals are generally oxides, sulfides, silicates, or native metals that are not commonly concentrated in the Earth's crust. The ores must be processed to extract the metals of interest from the waste rock and from the ore minerals.\n\nOre bodies are formed by a variety of geological processes. The process of ore formation is called ore genesis.\n\nSome important ore minerals:\n\nArgentite\nBarite\nBeryl\nBornite\nCassiterite\nChalcocite\nChalcopyrite\nChromite\nCinnabar\nCobaltite\nColumbite-Tantalite or Coltan\nGalena\nGold\nHematite\nIlmenite\nMagnetite\nMolybdenite\nPentlandite\nScheelite\nSphalerite\nUraninite\nWolframite
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aluminium because its an alkali earh metal and\nfluorine is a halogen
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A mineral is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a definite chemical composition and a crystalline structure. A rock is an aggregate of one or more minerals. (A rock may also include organic remains.) Some rocks are predominantly composed of just one mineral. For example, limestone is a sedimentary rock composed almost entirely of the mineral calcite. Other rocks contain many minerals, and the specific minerals in a rock can vary widely. Some minerals, like quartz, mica or feldspar are common, while others have been found in only one or two locations worldwide. Over half of the mineral species known are so rare that they have only been found in a handful of samples, and many are known from only one or two small grains.\nthere for its hard to say which is rarest.