Sentence examples for minerals does not from inspiring English sources

To the Editor: David Aronson's attack on the Dodd-Frank law's provisions on "conflict minerals" does not tell the full story.

Between 1929 and 1975 Australian income per person increased at an average annual rate of 0.96%, compared with 0.67% in Argentina.Australia had some big advantages: the price of minerals does not affect domestic consumers in the same way as the price of food, for instance.

The transformation of glass into secondary minerals does not significantly change the porosity, which allows the alteration to progress.

The mere presence of these minerals does not prove biology existed when the zircons formed, but it does provide the opportunity to look for chemical signs of life.

D i is the bulk partition coefficient of element i obtained by assuming that the proportion of minerals does not change during partial melting.

In comparison to N, the predictive quality was lower for P also in other studies (Gillon et al. 1999; Chodak et al. 2002; Gruselle 2010); probably because P, like other minerals, does not absorb energy in the near-infrared region.

Obviously, minerals do not have genes and thus cannot mutate as living things do.

The common sulfide ore minerals do not form placers, because they rapidly oxidize and break down.

It would also require them to detail steps taken to ensure that the minerals did not benefit armed groups.

It also requires them to report what steps the company took to ensure that the purchase of these minerals did not benefit armed groups in Africa.

This is possible in potassium argon (K Ar) dating, for example, because most minerals do not take argon into their structures initially.