Some authors believe that water should be considered to be a mineraloid a material that meets some of the requirements of being a mineral but falls short others disagree because they believe that a mineraloid only fails to meet the requirements of being a mineral because it is.
Why isn t granite a mineral.
Why isn t granite the top countertop choice then.
Here is a list of some minerals that can be present in granite.
Granite is high in quartz about 25 feldspar and mica.
There has to be a catch though right.
Granite is a rock not a mineral.
Quartz biotite light colored mica muskovite dark colored mica white feldspar pink feldspar.
Granite is a course grained intrusive silicic igneous rock it is a nonmetallic resource.
The first two main reasons deal with the cost and they just might not like the look or want something different from what the joneses have.
Well there are four general reasons why people do not go with granite.
However it freezes into ice which is a mineral.
Even though granite contains metal ions the minerals.
Some consider water to be a mineraloid.
The minerals found in granite are non metallic.
Granite is a composite of many other minerals.
Color variation is a response to the percent of each mineral found in the sample.