Chemicals in the Lithosphere

The Earth's Lithosphere is made up of a mixture of minerals.
The lithosphere is the Earth's rigid outer layer - the crust and part of the mantle below it.
It's made up of a mixture of minerals, often containing silicon, oxygen and aluminium.
Most of the silicon and oxygen in the Earth's crust exits as the compound silicon dioxide.
Different types of rock contain different minerals and different elements. For example, limestone contains a lot of calcium, whereas sandstone contains a lot of silicon.
Silicon dixide forms a giant covalant structure.
Giant covalent structures, lie silicon dioxide, contain no charged ions.
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