MINERALS BY: LEVI MOONEYHAM.

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MINERALS BY: LEVI MOONEYHAM

Calcium Tums has calcium. Calcium is good for your bones and your teeth. Calcium is also a mineral.

Magnesium Almonds contain magnesium. Magnesium can help lower blood pressure and is also a key mineral for healthy bones. Magnesium is a mineral.

Halite Halite can detoxify your body, season your food, and de-ice roads.

Talc Talc powder is in baby powder and facial powders. Talc powder has magnesium in it also.

Copper Copper is a good conductor of electricity and heat. Copper is used in a lot of things such as generators, motors, radios, TV sets, motor vehicle radiators, air- conditioners, and home heating systems.

Fluorite Fluorite is used in toothpaste. Without toothpaste our teeth wouldn’t be clean. That means we would have a lot of cavities.

Quartz Small quartz crystals help regulate time in watches.

Aluminum Aluminum is used in automobiles, airplanes, bottling and canning industries, building and electrical, and in other applications.

Cobalt Uses of Cobalt include magnets, cutting tools, and production of industrial engines.

Diamond Diamonds can be used for gems, tools and drilling bits.