Welcome back!
Today we're going to be talking about minerals and their properties.
This is one of the most fundamental
parts of learning geology
or understanding any of the earth sciences is understanding the minerals.
Prior to watching this video,
you want to make sure you've gone through the previous lecture
on the atomic nature of matter
that I posted to the class.
You want to make sure that
you have a good understanding of
why elements bond,
What the difference between a compound and an element is.
And, also you want to make sure you have some kind of general
understanding of what a covalent bond is going into this.
So that video talks about all of those things.
Alright, with that said, let's jump right into it.
Here we've got some minerals.
Just kind of to whet our appetite.
Minerals are beautiful things.
We have labradorite plagioclase
which is a type of a
very common mineral on earth,
