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[[Image:Native silver.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Native silver is on calcite from Kongsberg, Norway. Credit: Aram Dulyan.]]
[[Minerals/Metals/Precious|Precious metal minerals]] is a lecture and an article from the [[School:Geology|school of geology]]. It is about solid, crystalline substances containing precious metal elements of the [[periodic table]] that occur in and compose astronomical objects. It focuses on materials that may occur on the surface of or associated with some astronomical objects.

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==Quiz==

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{Yes or No, Platinum can also occur as nuggets.
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+ Yes
- No

{Gold (Au) is the most prestigious metal known, but it's not the most
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{ valuable (i) }.

{Yes or No, Gold is the only metal that has a deep, rich, metallic yellow color.
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+ Yes
- No

{Where gold has been concentrated, it occurs as wires, dendritic crystals, twisted sheets, octahedral crystals, and variably-shaped
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{ nuggets (i) }.

{True or False, Platinum is a body-centered cubic metal above room temperature.
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- TRUE
+ FALSE

{Complete the text:
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Elements usually emit a { gamma ray|gamma-ray (i) } during nuclear { decay (i) } or { fission (i) }.

{True or False, Alkali minerals, or alkali metal minerals, are those with unusually high concentrations, atomic per cents, or weight per cents, of the body-centered cubic elements.
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- TRUE
+ FALSE

{Carnotite is a mineral that may be associated with which phenomena?
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+ varying water content
+ small amounts of calcium, barium, magnesium, iron, and sodium
+ a bright to greenish yellow mineral
- demonstrating that Venus was once a comet
+ amounts as low as one percent will color sandstone a bright yellow.
+ an important uranium ore
+ usually found in sedimentary rocks in arid climates

{Yes or No, Ruthenium is a hexagonal close-packed metal from room temperature to melting.
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+ Yes
- No

{A terrestrial planet is composed primarily of?
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{ silicate rocks|metals|silicates|rocks (i) }

{Yes or No, Rhenium is a body-centered cubic metal at room temperature.
|type="()"}
- Yes
+ No

{The primary source of the world's thorium is the rare-earth, and thorium, phosphate mineral
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{ monazite (i) }.

{Yes or No, Rhodium is a face-centered cubic metal at room temperature.
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+ Yes
- No

{Complete the text:
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The extremely rare element technetium can be found in { uraninite|pitchblende (i) } in very small quantities (about 0.2 ng/kg), produced by the { spontaneous (i) } fission of uranium-238.

{True or False, Potarite is a platinum-mercury mineral.
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- TRUE
+ FALSE

{True or False, Palladium is a face-centered cubic metal at room temperature.
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+ TRUE
- FALSE

{Uranophane is a rare calcium uranium
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{ nesosilicate (i) } hydrate mineral.

{True or False, Silver is a fcc metal at higher temperatures up to melting.
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- TRUE
+ FALSE

{Yes or No, Platinum is an fcc metal at room temperature.
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+ Yes
- No

{Yes or No, Gold is a face-centered cubic metal at room temperature up to melting.
|type="()"}
+ Yes
- No

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==Hypotheses==
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# Precious metals are usually the most chemically inert metals.

==See also==
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* [[Minerals/Actinides/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Astronomy/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Blues/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Carbonides/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Chalcogens/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Halogens/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Ices/Black ices/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Ices/Brittle ices/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Metalloids/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Metals/Alkaline earths/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Metals/Alkalis/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Metals/Body-centered cubics/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Metals/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Metals/Transitions/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Mineralogy/Quiz|Mineralogy/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Silicates/Quiz]]
* [[Minerals/Transuranics/Quiz]]
* [[Mining geology/Quiz]]
* [[Volcanoes/Volcanic minerals/Quiz]]
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==External links==
* [http://www.iau.org/ International Astronomical Union]
* [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ NASA's National Space Science Data Center]
* [http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu/ The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System]

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