1. Answer in one or two sentences: (a) What are minerals? (b) What is the importance of iron? (c) Which mineral gives us aluminium? (d) What is the advantage of using non-conventional resources?
Answers
a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid chemical compound with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.
Iron is an essential element for all forms of life and is non-toxic.
Bauxite ore is the main source of aluminum and contains the aluminum minerals gibbsite, boehmite, and diaspore.
Cheaper and Renewable: Most of the Non-conventional Power resources are cheaper and renewable as compared to the conventional sources.
Answer:
1.A) A mineral is a naturally occurring inorganic solid, with a definite chemical composition, and an ordered atomic arrangement.
B) Iron is an essential element for blood production. About 70 percent of your body's iron is found in the red blood cells of your blood called hemoglobin and in muscle cells called myoglobin. Hemoglobin is essential for transferring oxygen in your blood from the lungs to the tissues.
C) Bauxite ore is the main source of aluminum and contains the aluminum minerals gibbsite, boehmite, and diaspore.
D)These sources of energy are environmentally friendly.
They are inexhaustible.
They are easy to operate.