In My House

Instructions
1. Select 10 objects that you commonly use in your house.
2. Identify the minerals or metals used in these objects.
3. Identify properties of each metal which make them
suitable for use in this object.
Object Metals Useful Properties
Laptop and Phone Nickel and Cobalt
Easy to clean and does not
harbor bacteria on its surface
Brick Walls Clay Very common
Plumbing Pipes Copper
Excellent conductor of
heat/electricity second only to
sil!er"
#irror $il!er
Excellent conductor of
heat/electricity
Wall Paint #agnesium and %itanium
%he ninth most abundant element
in the Earth by mass&
%he third most abundant element
dissol!ed in sea'ater&
Essential to all li!ing cells&
( highly flammable metal&
)sed as an alloying agent to
make aluminium magnesium
alloys&
Lamp Electricity Coal
*uel source in our generation of
electricity
$to!e *uel Natural +as
#akes heat 'hen burnt& %he heat
is con!erted to mechanical and
chemical energy&
,oof tiles Clay Very common
*iberglass -nsulation $ilica $and $uperior electric insulator
Porcelain Bath .aolin
)sually associated 'ith laterite
and bauxite and formed from
'eathering in 'et or dry tropical
climates&
)sed as filling and coating
pigments for paper/ in polymer
and point&
)sed in ceramics and as a
hardener of natural latex to form
rubber&
.no'n for its superior
brightness and 'hiteness 'hen
high 0uality clay&
o be used in conjunction with the !Minin" Makes #our House$ on%line interacti&e
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