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Minerals used to make cars
Cars are made from many different minerals. Their steel body is made from the iron-rich minerals like magnetite and hematite. Door handles and badges are often coated in chromium which comes from the mineral chromite.

Steel is:

Strong
Rigid
Hard

Magnetite (top right), hematite and chromite are used to make the metal parts of cars

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Find out about the minerals we use every day...
Krystal the quartz
Building a house
In the kitchen
Around the home
Transport and technology
Neat and tidy
Health and medicine

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