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01-11-2008 4:55 PM 		Reply to: Message 3 by Phat
01-11-2008 4:37 PM

Re: Animal Vegetable or Mineral
Can we say that all minerals are non living ?
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Yes.
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And by definition, minerals are made of inorganic materials.
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ABE:
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Wow, I guess I should check the stuff before I post it. I happened to look up mineral in wiki:
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Traditional definitions excluded organically derived material. However, the International Mineralogical Association in 1995 adopted a new definition:
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a mineral is an element or chemical compound that is normally crystalline and that has been formed as a result of geological processes.[2]
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The modern classifications include an organic class - in both the new Dana and the Strunz classification schemes.
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Edited by Catholic Scientist, : see ABE
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