"A mineral is any natural, inorganic (not living) solid, whose atoms are arranged in an orderly fashion! And as a result of the orderly arrangement of the atoms, the object is uniform throughout. The proportions of the different atoms are fixed. From the X-ray of this mineral we can see that the ratio of red to white atoms is one to one throughout the specimen! If the atoms were arranged randomly, the ratio of red to white atoms would vary from one part of the specimen to another!" |
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