1. Minerals
In Everyday Life

2.  32 Almost every product we use in daily life contains depends on minerals that have to be mined.

3. 33 Many materials used by people come from rocks and minerals.

4.  34 We use carbonate minerals in cement, building stones, and fireworks.

5. 35 Carbonates are minerals that contain both carbon and oxygen.

6.  36 Silicon is the second most common element on Earth.

7. List some commonly used minerals.
#37

8. Aluminum – packaging, building/construction, electrical, machines
Barium – rubber, sparkplugs, white pigment
Beryllium – X-rays, computers, electronics in cars, medical equipment
Copper – cables, wires, switches, plumbing, heating

9. Feldspar – paper, pottery, glass, fertilizer
Halite (salt) – preserving food, seasoning food, soap, mineral water
Lead – batteries, gas, electronics, glass construction, computers

10. Lithium – batteries, glass, medicine
Silica – computer chips, glass, cosmetics, medicine
Titanium – sports equipment, welding, missiles, jet engines, medical
Uranium – submarines, nuclear medicine