Maybe you don't think about it but we use rocks and minerals everyday. How do you use them. Click on the link below to see just a few uses of rocks and mineral.
Uses of rocks and minerals
Now try to add at least three different ways that you use rocks and minerals in your daily life. Lets see how long our list can get.
We use rocks for roads, metals, jewelry, tombstones, building materals, cosmetics, and many, many more things.We can also use them for certain sports, and writing.
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We use minerals and rocks for many things including jewelry, buildings, roads, and other things. Three different ways we use rocks and minerals in everyday life is we use Slate for chalkboards, roofs, and patio walks. Obsidian is used for making knives. Also, marble is used for making floors, and bathroom tiles.
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ReplyDeleteWe were thinking about it, and we didn't realize how often we use rocks in minerals in everyday life. We knew that rocks and minerals were used for like jewelry, buildings, and other things, but we never knew it was used for other things in everyday life.
We use minerals and rocks for many thinks like Jewelry, buildings, roads, metals, cosmetics, and tombstones. Three different ways we use rocks and minerals in everyday life is we use Marble for making floors, statues, and bathroom tiles. Slate for chalkboards, roofs, and patio walks. Obsidian is used for making knives. And also Basalt
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@ jordan and sarah
DeleteI like your paragraph because you put in a lot of examples.
@Maddie & Jalynn
ReplyDeleteWe agree. And we never new rocks and minerals are in are make up!?! Haha, I never knew that Rocks and minerals were used that frequently in everyday life.
We use rocks for roads, metals, jewelry, building and counter tops.
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We use rocks and minerals in are everyday life like, counter tops, the ground that we walk on, metal, bathroom tiles, chalkboards with slate. Titanium is in airplanes.
ReplyDeleteI am interested to learn that most of these can be used to make all kinds of materials for buildings.-Dominic Deutsch
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we use rocks for make up, toothpaste, chewing gum, etc.
ReplyDeleteAsbestos- This mineral can be strung into thin, strong fibers that are flexible, heat resistant, and chemically inert, thus making asbestos minerals suitable for use in fireproof fabrics, yarn, cloth, paper, paint filler, gaskets, roofing composition, reinforcing agent in rubber and plastics, brake linings, tiles, electrical and heat insulation, cement, and chemical filters.
ReplyDeleteGraphite- Used in pencils and as lubricants for machinery.
Halite- This mineral is used for food seasoning and food preservation and making acids, chlorine, ceramic glazes, metallurgy, curing of hides, mineral waters, soap manufacture, home water softener, highway deicing, photography, herbicides, fire extinguishing, nuclear reactors, mouthwash, medicinal purposes, in scientific equipment for optical parts.
Silver- Uses include photography, chemistry, jewelry, electronics, as currency, alloys, chemical reaction vessels, water distillation, a catalyst in manufacture of ethylene, mirrors, electric conductors, batteries, plating, table cutlery, dental, medical, and scientific equipment, electrical contacts, bearing metal, magnet windings and solder.
Quartz- As crystals, quartz is used as gems, with numerous varieties. It is also used to make sandpaper and other abrasives, soap, and ceramics, pressure gauges, oscillators, heat-ray lamps, prisms, and spectrographic lenses, glass, paints, and it is also used in high-tech items such as radios, TVs, clocks, watches and computers
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ReplyDeleteDon't we have it in our water?
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