geo3510-sp/ch09

Week 11, 11/07-11/13:

Reading Assignment: Chapter 9
Fertilizer and Chemical Minerals

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Contents (topics):

Introduction

Minerals for Fertilizers

Historical Overview of Fertilizers

The Early Potash Industry and u.S. Patent Number I Nitrogen

Phosphorus || Potassium || Sulfur

Minerals for Chemicals

Halite

Lake Peigneur: Where Oil and Salt did not Mix

Soda Ash and Sodium Sulfate

Boron

Fluorine

Fertilizer and Chemical Minerals in the Future

Minerals in Foods, Medicines, and Cosmetics

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Activities (things you must do):

Read Chapter Nine of your textbook

Review the news on Mining <http://www.northernminer.com/>

Click on this link <http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/recycle/> to learn about Recycling Statistics and Information

Learn Commodity Statistics and Information of:

Cadmium -http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/cadmium/

Chromium http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/chromium/

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Abilities Acquired (what you learned):

By the end of this chapter you should be able to:

1.- Name the three principal fertilizer chemical elements.

2.- Identify the sources from where we obtain the major fertilizer components.

3.- Describe the role that Peru played in providing fertilizer to Europe in the 1800's.

4.- Explain the cause and outcome of the War of the Pacific, 1879-1883.

5.- Explain the origin of the large phosphate rock deposits now being mined for fertilizer.

6.- Describe the conditions under which the potassium salts mined for fertilizers form.

7.- Explain why halite is commonly considered to be the most useful of the chemical minerals.

8.- Give the source from where we obtain the sulfur for use in industry.

9.- Name the major uses of fluorine.

10.- Describe the conditions under which beds of salt form.

11.- Name the country which lost its coastline during the War of the Pacific.

12.- Name the country which gained total control of the fertilizer resources as a result of the War of the Pacific.

13.- Identify the mode of formation of guano fertilizers.

14.- Describe the mode of formation of potash fertilizers.

15.- Explain the origin of the large beds of halite that are mined in many parts of the world.

16.- List the two principal substances dissolved in seawater.

17.- List the three primary fertilizer components.

18.- Name the components and their percentages of a bag of 5-10-20 of plant fertilizer.

19.- List the two States considered the major sources of phosphate fertilizers in the U.S.

20.- Give the source of the nitrogen in modem fertilizers.

21.- State the amount of total dissolved solids in seawater.

22.- Name the element added to drinking water in many communities to reduce dental cavities.

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