Rocks and Minerals: A Mouthful of Minerals
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Hiding in your house are a whole lot of minerals. Find them!
Minerals aren’t just in rocks—they’re in your house, your food, even your body! From aluminum cans to toothpaste, and calcium to iron, discover how minerals shape the world around us and why they’re essential for strong bones, energy, and life itself.
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Rocks and Minerals: A Mouthful of Minerals
Clip: Special | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Minerals aren’t just in rocks—they’re in your house, your food, even your body! From aluminum cans to toothpaste, and calcium to iron, discover how minerals shape the world around us and why they’re essential for strong bones, energy, and life itself.
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Science Trek is a place where parents, kids, and educators can watch short, educational videos on a variety of science topics. Every Monday Science Trek releases a new video that introduces children to math, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) career potentials in a fun, informative way.[MUSIC] JOAN CARTAN-HANSEN, HOST: This house is full of things made with minerals.
The soda can is made from aluminum.
The dinnerware, the window glass, the floor tile, and ceramic sink, and the toilet all contain the minerals feldspar and quartz.
Your toothpaste, that contains fluoride, is partially made from the mineral fluorite.
Minerals are the crystalline materials that make up rocks.
And they're really useful.
We mine, crush or grind rock ore to recover the minerals.
They then can get processed into something we can use to make things.
You even eat minerals.
Minerals are essential for our health.
You need minerals for strong bones and teeth, to convert food into energy, even to help oxygen get to every cell in your body.
Dairy and fish contain calcium and phosphorus.
Fruits and vegetables have potassium and magnesium.
Meats, beans and nuts have iron, zinc, and copper.
Even plain table salt is a mineral.
It's a compound of sodium and chloride.
For more information about rocks and minerals, check out the Science Trek website.
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