Many of the minerals throughout my home can be found in the same materials and are used for the same purposes. A chair, the carpeting, and towels all contain Sphalerite, a mineral that comes from zinc, is used as dyes for coloration as well as Chromite, a mineral from oxide. However, a chair and the carpeting also use Sulfur, a cyclic octatomic molecule formed mineral, because it is used for the foam padding underneath the cushions of a chair and the soft tissue part of the carpet. A stove and a dishwasher also use some of the same components: Hematite, an iron oxide based mineral, is used as an iron base in the formation of many appliances and some jewelry; Chromite, formed from iron oxide, is used for steel; Galena, a form of lead sulfide, is smelted to become a metal base; Copper, a useful metal for conducting heat and electricity, is also used as a type of building material – it is also used in the production of air conditioners, light bulb filaments, and the wiring in things from headphones to remote controls. More specifically, a stove also utilizes Cinnabar (from mercury), used for either pigmentation or temperature- and pressure-measuring. Pentlandite, also used in the common stove, (an iron-nickel sulfide base), is used for fusing with other metals to structure an appliance or building. A dishwasher makes use of Quartz as well, a mineral created from oxygen tetrahedral and used for the electrical component in the dishwasher. Graphite, produced from carbon atoms,
Amethyst is purple quartz; the color is caused by iron (Fe4+) impurities. Azurite is a copper mineral. Calcite is a very common and widespread mineral and has highly variable forms and colors. Lodestone is a natural magnet. Mica is a sheet silicate. Rose quartz is translucent and a variety of the silica mineral quartz, found in pegmatite. Talc almost always found in foliated masses in metamorphic rocks with many carbonate minerals. Pyrite is a very common mineral. The brassy-yellow metallic color of pyrite has lead people to mistaking it for Gold, so its common nickname is
copper, and porcelain. This document does not hold a bias or opinion toward any particular
The Britannia Mines has played such a major role in the building blocks of British Columbia’s economic development and early history. Behind the unforgotten community that once flourished with 60,000 miners of different races and religions, lies a rich history that captures the hearts of many who pass by one of the most successful copper sites of its time. With that being said, the legend behind the discovery of affluent minerals in Britannia Mines is by a doctor who was searching for gold in the year, 1888. After many failed attempts to set up a mining industry, the Britannia Mine and Smelting Company Ltd. took interest in this discovery and developed operation systems and communities. The Britannia Mines in the 1920s became such a successful
Proud of her achievement, Annika Sutter (10) displays her medal on Monday, Dec. 5, for winning the second hour Health I mineral challenge in teacher Jeff Voss’s classroom. The competition was held to test the students’ knowledge of vitamins and minerals with 25 questions; the winner received a medal to wear for the day.
Aim: To classify unknown substances according to their structure type and to observe how the structure of materials affects their uses.
The Rocks is one of the oldest areas of the Sydney area, therefore it features a range of amazingly beautiful old historic and heritage-listed buildings. The Sirius building, for example, was designed and built between 1978 and 1979. The Rocks locality features Brutalist architecture, buildings which are now used as residential apartments. The historic architecture and history of The Rocks are not the only interesting things that make it appealing.
Salt of the Earth has a good claim to being one of the most controversial and notorious American movies of all time. Normally a film with such an infamous public reputation would be expected to have transgressed societal proprieties with regard to the use of sex and violence. However, that is not the case with this New Mexico set movie about a miners strike. Salt of the Earth was the film that suffered most at the hands of the McCarthyist witch hunts that were doing the rounds in early fifties America. Without wishing to condone the political attitudes of the time, it is to a degree understandable why this was the case as the film is one of the most impressive pieces of agit-prop drama imaginable.
April 2000, the largest gypsum crystal in the world are found in Naica Mexico mine’s Cave of Crystals. Crystals can be made in many different ways. Earth can either make them or they can be made artificially. Crystals can be made out of salt or borax. The earliest crystal grower was Earth. For salt crystal the water starts to evaporate the solution of the amount of salt in the glass that it remains the same. There is not enough water left to keep the sodium and chlorine ions from joining together (What Controls Crystal Growth?). Salt crystals are formed. This experiment will conduct of the type of water will affect the growth of crystals.
can be a useful in many circumstances. Charcoal can be activated by heating it within an oven,
The Brunswick corporation produced the Mineralite Ball later in 1914. The ball, known for its “mysterious rubber compound”, became very popular. During this age in bowling, bowlers never had any worry about what type of bowling balls or lane surfaces that they used. In the 1970s more bowlers started using rubber balls. The rubber provided them a low surface friction coverstock that produced slightly more surface friction than a regular polyester bowling ball. When drilled, the rubber produced a horrible smell because of the friction making heat on the drill bit. Inside the rubber balls no core design existed except light material fillers with an added weight block. Weight blocks provided drilling layouts for different styles of play. These
Potassium, discovered by Sir Humphry Davy, is a very unique element. Potassium gets its name from its main source, potash salt. Potassium is number 19 on the periodic table, with the letter K as its chemical symbol. The K comes from the latin word “kalium” meaning potash. Potassium has 19 protons, 20 neutrons, and 19 electrons. Its atomic number is 19, because it has 19 protons, and its atomic mass is 39.0983. Potassium is a metal, categorized underneath the group alkali metals, this means it is a soft silvery metal.
Iron can be used for a wide range of resources in the contemporary world. It is the most abundant, least expensive, and most used of all metals. It is vital to human and animal life, and humans use it in a variety of devices to make life convenient. It is combined with other elements to make steel or other compounds for many commercial uses, the most common of which include making fuels, lubricants, automobiles, machine tools, hulls of large ships, building parts, machine parts, cooking pots and pans, cutlery, surgical equipment, and aircraft. Iron (III) “is used in the treatment of sewage, as a dye for cloth, as a coloring agent for paint, an additive in animal feed, and in the manufacture of printed
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The element I am researching is Iron(Fe). Iron could be used in many ways. Iron is a ductile, gray, relatively soft metal and is a moderately good conductor of heat and electricity. 2.It is attracted by magnets and can be readily magnetized. 3. The pure metal is chemically very reactive and rusts readily in moist air, forming red-brown oxides. Rust is iron oxide and when it is hydrated, it rusts.
Early uses of the element include jewelry, weapons, and tools. The element was first used around 9000 b.c.e. and was found in northern Iraq. Copper was first used by Native Americans around 2500 b.c.e. One of the first skills that the ancient coppersmith must have learned how to do was shape the metal, possibly by heating. This element was first used to its full potential when Coppersmiths began to use tin with copper to make an alloy called bronze. An alloy is a mixture of two or more metals with properties differs from those of the individual metal. The alloy was first discovered as early as 4000 b.c.e. Bronze was used similar to copper due to the many variety of tools, weapons, and jewelry that are created from the alloy. It differs from copper in the way that with tin added, the alloy is a better conductor and easier to shape than the metal alone. Copper was used as the primary metal of the world to around 3000 b.c.e when society discovered iron. Many copper compounds are used in today’s agricultural, medical, and pest-control jobs. Copper Acetate (Cu20 (C2H3O2) 2) is a