Refresh your memory

 

How we use minerals: refresh your memory

Minerals have different properties - they can be hard, soft, strong, rigid, impermeable... The objects we make from minerals share the mineral's properties.

Quartz is hard, transparent and impermeable. We use it to make glass, which is also hard, transparent and impermeable.

 

Three smiling minerals with question marks

 

 

About this resource
 

Science topic: Minerals

Key Stage: KS2, KS3

Type: Information

Keywords: minerals, every day use of minerals

Click on the different objects to find out about the minerals which make them

 

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