Which of these minerals aren't found in soil? Lime, phosphorous, water, salt, salt peter, fluorine, carbon,

Question

Iron, aluminum, ammonium, magnesium, sulfur, and silicon? I really need to know. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I think fluorine is a gas.Fluorite is a mineral

Answer 2

carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. --not found in soil

phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulfur, zinc, iron, manganese, copper, boron, molybdenum, and chlorine.---found in soil

Answer 3

is this right ?!.

Soils contain solids, water and air. The solids, the bulk of a soil --

except in purely organic types such as peat and muck -- are mostly

mineral materials. Ordinarily they also contain some organic material:

decayed and decaying remains of plants and animals.

At least 16 elements, called plant nutrients, are considered necessary for

optimum growth, development and food values in plants. Of these,

carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are obtained largely from the water and

air. From the soil solids, plants obtain six called macronutrients, that are

used in large quantities: nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium,

magnesium and sulfur.

Seven other elements, called micronutrients, are just as essential for

plants but needed and used only in very small amounts: iron,

manganese, copper, zinc, boron, chlorine and molybdenum. They are

equally essential for the nutrition of livestock and people. Plants

normally obtain them from the soil. We and other animals get them

from plants.

for more info , go to this site:

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/70...

or this :

http://www.basic-info-4-organic-fertiliz...

this sites will lead you directly to the subject ..

hope this help !. >.<

Answer 4

Not all of the above are minerals.

Lime, salt, salt peter, carbon, sulfur and silicon could be classified as minerals - they all are present in the Earth's crust in that form.

Carbon could appear as grafite, coal or diamonds, sulfur can be found near volcanoes and silicon can also appear in pure form (although it is much more common in combined for as silicates or silica).

Water is present in large amounts in the subsoil, but is not considered a mineral.

Phosphorous, iron, aluminium magnesium and fluorine are too reactive to be present in pure form, also pure fluorine is a gas, not a solid.

However, all of them accur in cobined form in minerals.

Amonium is an ion. It does not exist in isolation, it has to be combined with something else.

I am not sure it exists in any minerals.