EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -1. A rock is inorganic and a solid naturally-formed substance without any chemical composition or atomic structure. A mineral is also a solid, inorganic, substance as that of the rock which has a definite crystalline structure as well as chemical composition. 2.

Detailed explanation-2: -A mineral is a naturally occurring substance with distinctive chemical and physical properties, composition and atomic structure. Rocks are generally made up of two of more minerals, mixed up through geological processes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Petrology is the study of rocks-igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary-and the processes that form and transform them. Mineralogy is the study of the chemistry, crystal structure and physical properties of the mineral constituents of rocks.

Detailed explanation-4: -1 Igneous rocks. 2 Sedimentary rocks. 3 Metamorphic rocks. 4 Specific varieties. 7 External links.