Minerals may be defined as the combination of two or moreelements of a substance.
<u>Five criteria that exhibits a particle to be minerals; </u>
They are natural and not man-made.
Inorganic i.e. not made by any organism.
Minerals are solids, not liquid or gas.
They have a definite chemical structure.
The atoms in minerals are arranged systematically and are arranged in a repeated pattern.
Minerals are natural and we use it in our day to day life. Products like salt and even a pencil have minerals. Also, these minerals help theparts in the human bodyto grow faster and function properly.
What do the cell walls of plants and the extracellular matrix of animal cells have in common? They have functional connections with the cytoskeleton inside the cell.
