Different between minerals and rock

Minerals

Rocks

• Minerals are homogenous substances with a very specific chemical composition.

• Rocks are aggregates with variable composition and are usually a mix of multiple minerals.

• Minerals are inorganic.

• Rocks can contain organic matter – even fossils!

• Minerals usually have a specific shape.

• Rocks do not have a definite shape.

• Minerals help in blood coagulation, in bone formation and muscle contraction, and some have nutritive value for the human body.

• Rocks don’t have any nutritional value.

• It has a regular, repeating atomic arrangement.

• Rocks do not.

• Minerals are classified according to their chemical and physical properties, but never by the way they were formed.

• The tree major rock categories refer to the process formation of said rocks.

• The science that studies minerals is called mineralogy.

• Petrology is the science that studies rocks.