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What Is The Main Difference Between Rock And Mineral?

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The main difference between rocks and minerals is that rock are made by 2 or more minerals. But minerals usually made of only 1 element.
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A mineral is a naturally occurring crystalline solid with a unique chemical composition and a definite structure. A rock is a mixture of two or more minerals.
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Rock is the combination of different minerals
but the MINERAL has specific chemical composition, structure, and they are all inorganic
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Most of us are not familiar that what is rock? We just considered it as a hard object and often as a dirty substance. Whereas it's our view that we considered minerals as rare elements .we consider all minerals as gemstones. However these different perceptions are far away from actual situation.

Rock is simply defined as a substance consisting one or more minerals. Rock normally found together as a mixture which possesses properties of different minerals in it. However most rocks are composed of more than one mineral, some mineral found in large quantities in rocks. A common example of such mineral is calcite which is present in large quantity in rocks and they are commonly known as limestone. Mineral are defined as naturally occurring substances, which have specific shape and structure and they have different chemical composition.

Chemical composition of many mineral generally varies over a wide range. So we can say that rock consist of minerals in their composition. So the chemical composition and internal structure can be known by minerals. More than 3000 mineral species are known up till now, most of which are characterized by definite chemical and physical composition and their crystalline structure.
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From energy, the construction, and the agriculture, to communications, the transportation, and the national defense, at home, at work, or at play; we all use or require minerals and mineral materials every day. Minerals are the homogeneous, naturally occurring and the inorganic solids. Each mineral has a definite chemical composition and the characteristic crystalline structure. A mineral might be a single element such as the copper (Cu), the gold (Au), or it may be a compound made up of a number of so many different elements. Round about 2,500 different minerals have been described till now. While, the rocks are made up of one mineral or by the combination of more than one minerals.

Or we can say that a rock is a collection or aggregation of one or more minerals; or a body of undifferentiated mineral matter. Minerals should be mined from the ground, either by surface, underground, or the drilling methods. The sand and the gravel are usually mined in the surface pits or the rock is crushed to size, gold is mined in surface pits, underground mines, and in the streams and the rivers. Mineral is a naturally occurring inorganic element or the compound having an orderly internal structure and the characteristic chemical composition, the crystal form, and the physical properties
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Rocks are made up of at least 2 or more minerals, minerals on the other hand are made up of only 1 substance.
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There are 3 types of rock and there are 3 thousand types minerals

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