Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Rocks & Minerals/34/en

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Uses for Minerals

  • Abrasives (diamond dust, garnet, others)
  • Lasers (sapphire, ruby)
  • Electronics (semiconductors)
  • Lenses (quartz)
  • Nutrition (your body needs many minerals)
  • Traction (silica - also known as sand)
  • Currency (gold, silver, copper)
  • Pencil lead (graphite)
  • Lubricant (graphite)
  • Medicine (Kaopectate is made from the mineral kaolin)

7. Tell of four Bible incidents in which a rock was significant.

Exodus 24:16-18
God carves the ten commandments in stone.
Numbers 20:2-13
God commands Moses to speak to the rock to provide water for the Isrealites but Moses hits it instead.
1 Samuel 17
David kills Goliath with a stone.
Daniel 2:34
A stone is cut without hands and destroys the image in Daniel's dream.
John 11:38-44
Jesus orders that the stone covering the tomb of Lazarus be removed.
Matthew 7:24-29
The parable of the wise and foolish builders.
Acts 6-7
The stoning of Stephen