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Nature Guide Rocks and Minerals

- The World in Your Hands
Af: DK Engelsk Paperback

Nature Guide Rocks and Minerals

- The World in Your Hands
Af: DK Engelsk Paperback
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Did you know culinary salt is the mineral halite? Or that the pigment vermillion is powdered cinnabar, a mineral whose name comes from the Persian for "dragon''s blood"?

Discover the extraordinary mineral treasures that form our planet and that today we use in everything, from makeup and cookery to agriculture and high-tech.

Rocks and Minerals is your essential collector''s companion, with illustrated entries on hundreds of minerals, gems, and rocks from actinium to zirconium. Its breathtaking array includes organic minerals, such as pearls and corals, as well as silicates and "native elements" like gold.

Browse to find wonderful gems, including opals, or pyropes - a deep-red garnet the size of a hen''s egg. Rocks and Minerals reveals each mineral''s defining characteristics, and explains how and where they were formed, how they were first identified, their uses, and their chemical composition.

Whether you are a geology student, or starting your own collection, this fact-packed book is both a fascinating read and an essential identification guide.

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Did you know culinary salt is the mineral halite? Or that the pigment vermillion is powdered cinnabar, a mineral whose name comes from the Persian for "dragon''s blood"?

Discover the extraordinary mineral treasures that form our planet and that today we use in everything, from makeup and cookery to agriculture and high-tech.

Rocks and Minerals is your essential collector''s companion, with illustrated entries on hundreds of minerals, gems, and rocks from actinium to zirconium. Its breathtaking array includes organic minerals, such as pearls and corals, as well as silicates and "native elements" like gold.

Browse to find wonderful gems, including opals, or pyropes - a deep-red garnet the size of a hen''s egg. Rocks and Minerals reveals each mineral''s defining characteristics, and explains how and where they were formed, how they were first identified, their uses, and their chemical composition.

Whether you are a geology student, or starting your own collection, this fact-packed book is both a fascinating read and an essential identification guide.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9781405375863
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1405375868
Udg. Dato: 2 jul 2012
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 139mm
Højde: 220mm
Forlag: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Oplagsdato: 2 jul 2012
Forfatter(e): DK
Forfatter(e) DK


Kategori Sten, mineraler og fossiler


ISBN-13 9781405375863


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 352


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 139mm


Højde 220mm


Udg. Dato 2 jul 2012


Oplagsdato 2 jul 2012


Forlag Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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