Mineralogy4Kids

Mineral is a natural inorganic solid with its own internal atomic structure and a defined chemical composition.

Inorganic substances are not life forms and are substances that can not be formed in the course of life.

In a crystalline solid, atoms constituting a solid have an ordered repetitive pattern.

Although minerals define the chemical composition, these ingredients may change within the given limits

Materials with these properties will also have unique physical properties such as color, crystal shape, cleavage, gloss, stripes, and the like.

Silicate minerals are considered to be the most important of all minerals. About 25% of known minerals and about 40% of common minerals are silicates. Near 90% of igneous rock minerals are silicate, which means that it occupies more than 90% of the Earth's crust (oxide is another major mineral group). The combination of each silicate mineral will tell you the environment it forms. The soil where we grow food is mainly composed of silicate. Brick, stone, concrete and glass are derived from silicate or silicate. The time of our computer and watch is preserved by silicate minerals

The largest combination of minerals so far is a silicate, most rocks are composed of 95% or more of silicate minerals, and more than 90% of the crust consists of these minerals. The two main components of silicate are silicon and oxygen. These are the two most abundant elements in the Earth's crust. Other common elements in the silicate mineral correspond to other common elements in the Earth's crust, such as aluminum, magnesium, iron, calcium, sodium, and potassium. Several important sequential silicates include feldspar, quartz, olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, garnet and mica.