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The Nature of Minerals and Rocks as Materials

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Minerals show a wide range in physical and chemical properties, and rocks have the additional complexity of the textural and structural variety of polycrystalline materials. However, there are some generalizations that can be made. Thus, most minerals are electrically insulating, optically transparent in thin sections, and brittle under ordinary atmospheric conditions, and many are silicates in chemical constitution.

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