Answer: During any type of mineral growth, atoms accumulate on crystal faces. A mineral crystal grows during mineral formation as atoms are added to its surfaces, edges and corners, the types of atoms that are added depends on the crystals growing surrounding.
Explanation: The minerals are formed of crystals, which can be microscopic (and even smaller, as in the case of chalcedony) or up to a few meters in length, such as the crystals found in the rock called pegmatite.
Answer:
A. Many cultures were combined together
Explanation:
The term "melting pot" is a metaphor that is used to depict that a once heterogenous(more than one) society becomes more homogenous (one) with a common culture between them.
Therefore, the term "melting pot" used in this context means A. Many cultures were combined together because according to the passage, <u>"New York City had many different countries and cultures settled in it"</u>
The higher teaching is the doctrine of the Four Noble Truths and the Path, and this is the Buddhist doctrine of salvation. When a being decides to turn his aspirations in the direction of the Path, then his efforts culminate, not in heaven, but in a state which is outside the whole system of samsära.