Question

Minerals are solid substances that occur naturally. There are mainly two different types of minerals—silicates and non-silicates. Name the two main elements that constitute silicate minerals.
a) Carbon and oxygen
b) Silicon and oxygen
c) Silicon and hydrogen
d) Silicon and carbon

Answer 1

Answer:

the answer is b silicon and oxygen ( please mark it as brainlest

Explanation:

The two main constituents of silicates are silicon and oxygen, which are the two most abundant elements in the Earth's crust. Other common elements in silicate minerals correspond to other common elements in the Earth's crust, such as aluminium, magnesium, iron, calcium, sodium, and potassium.

Answer 2

Option b is correct

silicon and oxygen

Explanation :

• Rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups are known as silicate minerals.
• They make up roughly 90% of the Earth's crust and are the biggest and most significant mineral class.

• Silica (silicon dioxide), sometimes known as SiO 2, is a silicate mineral in mineralogy.
• The mineral quartz and its polymorphs are examples of silica in nature.

• As a result of the processes that have been building and reworking the Earth's crust for billions of years, a broad diversity of silicate minerals occur in an even greater range of combinations.
• Partially melting, crystallization, fractionation, metamorphism, weathering, and diagenesis are some of the processes that occur.