Minerals - Brandon Hale

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  1. 3. Used in manufacture of fertilizers, petroleum refining and metal mining
  2. 6. Used as a hardening alloy for lead, storage batteries, and cable sheaths
  3. 9. Used in the nuclear industry and to make light
  4. 10. Stucco
  5. 14. Natural magnet
  6. 16. Deodorant
  7. 17. Used in transportation, electrical equipment, and household appliances
  8. 18. Named after town Galena in Illinois
  9. 21. Polymorph of carbon element
  10. 22. Used for pressure gauges, oscillators
  11. 23. Cement
  12. 25. Name from Greek word meaning blood-like because the color of powder
  13. 27. Used in floor and wall tile as an absorbent, in sanitation, mud drilling
  14. 29. Used in welding rod coatings, chemicals and metals
  15. 31. Used for electrical conductivity purposes
  16. 33. Vitamin supplements
  17. 37. Used in construction products like roof insulation, fillers, and filler aids
  18. 39. Used in superalloys for aircraft gas turbine engines
  19. 40. Distinct taste
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  1. 1. Used as an alloy and in stainless and heat resisting steel products
  2. 2. Manufacture of lubricants and greases, batteries, medicine
  3. 4. Sandpaper
  4. 5. Cat litter
  5. 7. Used in electrical, construction, gasoline additives
  6. 8. Harden county only place it is mined
  7. 11. Construction, machinery and transportation end uses most of this
  8. 12. Used in integrated circuits, light emitting diodes
  9. 13. Important in glass and ceramic industries
  10. 15. Used in galvanizing, chemical, and paint industries
  11. 19. Most abundant metal element in Earth's crust
  12. 20. 20% of America's electricity is produced from this in nuclear generation
  13. 24. Used in plastic, roofing, rubber and welding rods
  14. 26. Baby powder
  15. 28. Used in coins and medals, electronic devices, jewelry
  16. 30. Used in the construction, metalworking, mining industries
  17. 32. Pennies
  18. 34. Nail polish
  19. 35. Formed from lava that is full of gas
  20. 36. Used in the manufacture of sulfur
  21. 38. Used as a fertilizer, carbonate of potassium, medicines