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Name: Eric
Status: Student
Age: 15
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: September 2002
Question:
Hi, I am a ninth grade student in the Schuylerville School District in New York. My Earth Science teacher has recently presented us with a question, and I was wondering if you could help. He asked if an icicle is a mineral, in its natural form) and all minerals are rocks, then shouldn't icicles technically be part of the lithosphere?
Why or why not is this?
I would really appreciate it if you responded within a few days.


Replies:
Eric,

An icicle is solid, being the solid form of water. However, water is not a mineral. Therefore an icicle is not a rock.

David R. Cook
Atmospheric Research Section
Environmental Research Division
Argonne National Laboratory


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