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Minerals have different properties - they can be hard, soft, strong, rigid, impermeable... The objects we make from minerals share the mineral's properties. Quartz is hard, transparent and impermeable. We use it to make glass, which is also hard, transparent and impermeable.

Click on the different objects to find out about the minerals which make them.

Objects made from minerals

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