# Nature Guide: Rocks and Minerals

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- Book: [Nature Guide: Rocks and Minerals](https://www.bookquiver.com/dk/nature-guide-rocks-and-minerals) ([Nature Guide: Rocks and Minerals.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dk/nature-guide-rocks-and-minerals.md))
- Authors: [DK](https://www.bookquiver.com/dk)
- Publisher: dk
- ISBN: 978-07-5669-042-7
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2012-06-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Did you know culinary salt is the mineral halite? Or that the pigment vermillion is powdered cinnabar, a mineral whose name comes from the Persian for " dragon’s blood"? Discover the extraordinary mineral...