GEOL 110 - Lecture 2
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2.5 What is a mineral?
- A mineral is/has
- naturally occurring solid
- usually inorganic
- Aside from some few exceptions (e.g., components of coal - derived from biologic remnants, aragonite, etc.) minerals are natural inorganic solids
- Organic crystalline materials like sugar are not minerals
- a defined (but slightly variable) chemistry
- an ordered internal structure