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What are minerals?
Solution
Minerals are natural inorganic substances having a crystalline form with definite physical and chemical properties. The most common minerals in the earth’s crust are silica, quartz, feldspar, mica, calcite, dolomite, gypsum, etc. There are about 2,000 minerals in the earth’s crust and these combine differently to form various kinds of rocks.
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