Rocks info

Slide 1: Rocks Minerals and other stuff. By Ryan Miller

Slide 3: MY BIRTH STONE.  June  pearl.  Color: White, , black, or cream.  It comes from. Austria, Germany, and USA.  Crystal Structure: Orthorhombic

Slide 4: Bauxite used to make aluminous

Slide 5: Gold.  Used in dentistry and medicine, jewelry arts, medallions and coins, and electronic stuff.

Slide 6: Silver Used in photograph- y, jewelry, and electronics.

Slide 7: ZINC Used as protective coating on steel, makes copper to make brass.

Slide 8: FLUORSPAR - Fluorite Helps keep stainless steel strong, refrigerant, and plastics containers.

Slide 9: Malachite  Used in  electric cables  wires,  switches,  plumbing,  heating,  roofing and building construction.

Slide 10: MANGANESE  Used to make iron.  Used to harden steal.

Slide 11: SULFUR  Used to make sulfuric acid, fertilizers, chemicals, explosives, dyestuffs, petroleum refining, vulcanization of rubber, fungicides.

Slide 13:  Igneous are made in high temperatures.

Slide 14: PUMICE  Used to make concrete.

Slide 15: PYRITE ( fools gold)  Used to make sulfuric acid and sulfur dioxide

Slide 16: Magnetite  Used to make steel.

Slide 17: BERYL/BERYLLIUM  Used in metal alloys.

Slide 18: Tourmaline  Sometimes pink tourmaline is used as a birthstone for October.

Slide 19: Made from different chunks of Minerals

Slide 20: BARITE Used in in oil and natural gas drilling.

Slide 21: COAL  One of the world’s major sources of energy. Used to burn.

Slide 22: QUARTZ  Quartz is found in many countries.  Used to make gemstones.

Slide 23: Limestone  Used in steal.

Slide 24: GYPSUM  Used to make Portland cement.

Slide 25: Metamorphic

Slide 26: KYANITE  Used to make stuff that will resist high temperatures.

Slide 27: TALC  Used in ceramics.

Slide 28: ASBESTOS  Asbestos is used to make heat resistant stuff.

Slide 29: GARNET  Used in sand paper.

Slide 30: QUARTZ  Used in gems.  Quartz is used to make silicon  Quartz is hard.  It makes a hexagonal shape.

Slide 31: Earth diagram.