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179 examples of Mineral in a sentence

And mica is a mineral which is a very good insulator and very good at insulating electricity.
Well, the wintering ground is also critical and it also is not protected, and is potentially, could be potentially, exploited for gas and mineral rights.
It is rich in mineral resources, natural mineral resources.
But the mineral wealth of Africa is not being utilized to lift its people out of poverty.
But what you hold in your hand leaves a bloody trail, and it all boils down to a mineral: tantalum, mined in the Congo as coltan.
The quest for extracting this mineral has not only aided, but it has fueled the ongoing war in the Congo.
It has 80,000 samples of animal, bone, mineral, plants.
And we tackle this problem by building giant, dynamically scaled model robot insects that would flap in giant pools of mineral oil where we could study the aerodynamic forces.
It's a layered structure that's mineral and then polymer, and it makes it very, very tough.
So they’re used in devices that find underground oil and mineral deposits, and they also make highly accurate atomic clocks, like the ones used in global positioning satellites.
You invite me to the same expensive restaurants the two of us have always enjoyed, but I order mineral water now with a twist of lemon, not the 12-dollar glass of chardonnay.
These mountains contain also a scientific paradox: They are made by quartz, which is a very common mineral on the earth's crust, and the rock made up by quartz is called quartzite, and quartzite is one of the hardest and least soluble minerals on earth.
They are bacterial colonies using silica to build mineral structures resembling stromatolites.
And, in fact, we discovered in the cave a new mineral structure for science, which is rossiantonite, a phosphate-sulfate.
So as we explore this dark continent and discover its mineralogical and biological diversity and uniqueness, we will find probably clues about the origin of life on our planet and on the relationship and evolution of life in relationship with the mineral world.
Did you know that most edible insects contain the same amount or even more mineral iron than beef, making them a huge, untapped resource when you consider that iron deficiency is currently the most common nutritional problem in the world?
Perhaps one day, we'll see gold rushes to tap the mineral wealth of the other planets of our solar system.
But as grandpa dug through that forest floor, I became fascinated with the roots, and under that, what I learned later was the white mycelium and under that the red and yellow mineral horizons.
Imagine that you purchase a plot of land not knowing the mineral rights have been sold.
Everywhere there has been constant extraction of mineral, killing animals, the logging timbers and so on.
And instead of using human figures to develop ideas of time and space, I work in the mineral world.
And these are mineral deposits that are also made by bacteria.
Those may be cells, fossils, or mineral traces left behind by living things.
As the water cools, ions precipitate out as mineral crystals, including quartz crystals from silicon and oxygen, feldspar from potassium, aluminum, silicon, and oxygen, galena from lead and sulfur.
Commodities are things that you grow in the ground, raise on the ground or pull out of the ground: basically, animal, mineral, vegetable.
Because mafias from all around the world cooperate with local paramilitaries in order to seize the supplies of the rich mineral resources of the region.
There, he gathers ceremonial cactus and herbs like “horse tail,” “stonebreaker," and valerian, along with the mineral hematite.
He brings the herbs he gathered to trade for cinnabar, a mineral that comes from the highlands in the Andes.
They control all mineral resources.
Because the aid and oil or mineral money acts the same way.
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