Pikes Peak Pebble Pups

Pikes Peak Pebble Pups

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

October 2010 Lesson

Earth Resources
Everything we have and use is either grown or mined.  Even things that are grown use mineral resources from the earth in the form of fertilizers and pesticides (insect killers).  Lets take a closer look.

How is your electricity created?
  1. Coal
  2. Oil
  3. Gas
  4. Nuclear
  5. Renewables:
  6. Hydropower
    • Wind
    • Solar
    • Geothermal
Things made of coal, oil, and gas:
Billiard balls                  
Bowling balls              
Fertilizers                
Disinfectants                     
Baking powder                          
Paint pigments
Tooth paste
Food preservatives
Batteries
Varnish
Perfumes                    
Plastics                       
Roofing
Laughing gas              
Lipstick 
Roofing
Medicines
Paving

Minerals and metals needed to make a light bulb:
Bulb: glass is made from silica, trona (soda ash), lime, coal, and salt.
Filament: tungsten. Filament may be a straight wire, a coil, or a coiled coil.
Lead-in wires to filament: copper and nickel to carry current to and from filament.
Gas: mixture of agron and nitrogen inside the bulb used to retard burning of the filament
Base: made of brass (copper and zinc) or aluminum.

What is in a sidewalk?
  • Sand and gravel for concrete.
  • Cement, the other part of concrete is made from shale, clay, quartz, gypsum, iron, alumina, manganese, and limestone.





Minerals in typical computers:
Monitor
Sulfur, hemmimorphite, zincite, smithsonite, franklenite, silver, pyragyrite, halite, bauxite,chalcopyrite, boronite, enargite, cuprite, malachite, azurite, chrysocolla, chalcocite, gold, othoclase, flourite, vesuvianite, lepidolite, dolomite, spinel, olivine, pyrope, biotite, talc, realgar, opriment, cobalite, tetrahedrite, monzanite, and others.

Plastic case, keyboard
Calcite, gypsum, apatite, aragonite, rutile, ilmenite, titanite, pyromorphite, and others.

Flat screen display monitors
Quartz, galena, cerussite, sulfur, hemminmoprhiite, zincite, smithsonite, silver, halite, bauxite, chalcopyrite, boronite, cuprite, malachite, azurite, gold, euxenite, pinel, olivine, biotite, talc, realgar, orpiment, asenopyrite, monzanite, and many others.

Printed circuit boards, computer chips
Quartz, chalcopyrite, boronite, enargite, cuprite, malachite, azuirite, chrsococolla, chalcocite, gold, silver, pyragyrite, cassiterite, bauxite, and others.
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