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Blog Entry One- Minerals

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    So here we are again at the beginning of another great year in Earth Science. The year has started off great and the students are working harder than ever to be successful this year. I am proud to see this in you, my Earth Science students.

This brings me to the next piece. .. Minerals. . . they are everywhere. When I look around the room, I am blown away by the amount of minerals I see that surround me, and not just because I have a collection of them in the back of the room. Minerals are crucial pieces to the building blocks that make up all that is around us in this world.

 

Can you think of one use of minerals that may be in a substance that you are in contact with everyday? How about a location on the web that can help others understand where to find the uses of minerals in everyday life? Go out and look around and post your findings right here on the blog.

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JWhite said

at 1:57 pm on Oct 15, 2009

rocks and minerals are very interesting i wonder if there are minerals are on the moon?

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JBattist said

at 1:57 pm on Oct 15, 2009

One mineral that I may come in contact wit every day would be graphite in school using my pencils.

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WCurtis said

at 1:58 pm on Oct 15, 2009

toothpaste is a substance that has minerals inn it:) you can go to google to look up minerals

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dmiller12@... said

at 1:58 pm on Oct 15, 2009

well first of all you can find minerals everywhere the floor in your room has some sort of minerals in it im sure

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JWhite said

at 1:59 pm on Oct 15, 2009

chalk its made from talc

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ZNorris said

at 1:59 pm on Oct 15, 2009

One mineral that we are in contact with everyday is rocks.

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Bri said

at 1:59 pm on Oct 15, 2009

One mineral is flourite and it is used in tooth paste.

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Jwood said

at 2:00 pm on Oct 15, 2009

graphite is in the lead

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TWinter said

at 2:01 pm on Oct 15, 2009

i put flourite in my mouth in the morning ha

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MFisher said

at 8:28 am on Oct 16, 2009

minerals are everywhere like tooth paste and rocks and lead and bricks they are a tool we use for almost anything

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TLefever said

at 8:34 am on Oct 16, 2009


graphite. you can find it in pencil led.

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Swood said

at 8:37 am on Oct 16, 2009

couple minerals are talc for chalk, graphite for pencils, and i also have flourite in my toothpaste. i dont really know any webpages i guess you could always look it up on bing or google and find a website from there.

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KRose said

at 9:42 am on Oct 16, 2009

we are in contact with grafite every day. It's in our pencils.
For the website I have no idea.... :P

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MMyers said

at 9:43 am on Oct 16, 2009

minerals like talc can be used for chalk..i as a student dont come in physcal contact with chalk everyday but its used for school.

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KLamora said

at 9:46 am on Oct 16, 2009

im in contact with talc for chalk so teachers can write to use. of website i dont know

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SGregg said

at 9:46 am on Oct 16, 2009

I think that rocks are used basically in everything in one way or another. like having table salt, and pencil lead, chalk and alot more.

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JWelkley said

at 9:46 am on Oct 16, 2009

The mineral that i see and use everyday is probably graphite because i use pencils and they have graphite in them.

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TWahl said

at 9:55 am on Oct 16, 2009

florite in the toothpaste i use every morning

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JBailey said

at 9:58 am on Oct 16, 2009

talc is in chalk and graphite is in pencils

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SMullie said

at 9:59 am on Oct 16, 2009

there is many minerals in make up such as titanium oxide, mica, iron oxide and many more

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NAnthony said

at 10:07 am on Oct 16, 2009

I use fluorite in my toothpaste everday,

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JFletcher said

at 10:11 am on Oct 16, 2009

There's flourite in my toothpaste that I use to make my teeth shiny and white. :D

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CEisenmenger said

at 10:14 am on Oct 16, 2009

i use Graphite everyday that is in my pencil to do my work, i don't like using pens!

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CWebster said

at 10:15 am on Oct 16, 2009

talc is a mineral in chalk

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JCall said

at 10:16 am on Oct 16, 2009

What's poppin!!! Yeah so I use flourite in my when I floss. Maybe u should start doing the same?

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sdehond said

at 10:53 am on Oct 16, 2009

i write wit penicils almost everyday and dat has graphite in it.

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bgeffert said

at 10:56 am on Oct 16, 2009

In some water why is there more sulfur than in others?

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gwebber said

at 10:57 am on Oct 16, 2009

halite is used for salt

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trafferty said

at 10:57 am on Oct 16, 2009

I found a good website for finding what common minerals we use daily. http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/go336/talkingt/

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bgaluski said

at 10:57 am on Oct 16, 2009

minerals...yeah, haha minerals. sulfer is in my well water and that is a mineral. :-()

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dbean said

at 11:32 am on Oct 16, 2009

yeah graphite is in r pencils in and outside school yeah thats about it ESTRADA

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jwilferth said

at 11:39 am on Oct 16, 2009

i brush my teeth every day and in my toth paste is flourite

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mhawkes said

at 11:49 am on Oct 16, 2009

Graphite is used in pencils :) , orginal right?

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Schrisman said

at 11:57 am on Oct 16, 2009

I have learned alot bout minerls. Before mr. wojieck taught me about them I never used to know the difference between Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic rocks.

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dbarnes said

at 12:01 pm on Oct 16, 2009

there is graphite in pencils and there is florite in tooth paste

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