What is the difference between vitamins and minerals?
Q. Which vitamins are antioxidants? Which vitamins are fat-soluble? Which each of the following indicate the correct vitamin needed: a. sunshine vitamin b. beriberi c. rickets d. scurvy 6. What is the difference between complete and incomplete protein? 7. What percent of calories should come from fat in a healthy diet? 8. Nutrition Facts on most labels are based on a diet that contains what calories? 9. What mineral is most abundant in your body? 10. What other minerals and vitamins work with it to give you strong bones and teeth? 11. What mineral produces hemoglobin and prevents anemia? 12.What are trace minerals? 13. What colors are foods high in vitamin "A"? 15. What is the mineral most often linked with high blood pressure? 16. Give three… [cont.]
Asked by Big Killah - Sat May 19 10:53:41 2007 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Getting to your main question, vitamins and minerals are different. Vitamins ("vita" = life and "amine" = containing nitrogen) are organic (containing carbon, which is an element found in all living things) compounds (containing atoms of one or more different elements). Minerals are pure inorganic elements (containing atoms of the same element), meaning they are much simpler in chemical form than vitamins. All vitamins are essential or required by our bodies, whereas only some minerals are essential nutrients. Vitamins are vulnerable to heat, light, and chemical agents, so cooking, food preparation, processing, and storage must be appropriate to preserve vitamins in food. Minerals, on the other hand, are more stable to food preparation,… [cont.]
Answered by Being Black Is Beautiful - Sat May 19 11:01:22 2007

How is that minerals are found in veins of ore?
Q. Considering how the Earth was supposedly formed from scattered elements after the Big Bang, how is it that many minerals are congregated in localized deposits and not spread uniformly throughout the substance of the planet? How did valuable elemental minerals like gold, iron or copper come to be localized in just a few continuous veins in certain regions instead of found everywhere? Is this an argument for at least limited Divine planning? Yes, but gold, for instance, is basically inert, it's non-magnetic and doesn't react with anything. Why is it found only in certain places and not everywhere? What forces caused the sub-atomic building blocks to form gold and why only in certain areas?
Asked by thosewerethedays - Fri Apr 13 14:05:06 2007 - - 5 Answers - 1 Comments

A. WAY oversimplified!~ Suppose tha the earth did indeed start out at some point after the big bang as an amorphous homogeneous blob. The fact that it was spinning and cooling introduce a host of physical factors that would introduce inhomogeneity. For example, the crust is in the solid state. Differential temperatures, rates of cooling, pressures would drastically alter the rates and positions of crystallization and deposition of various minerals, according to mass, density, crystal structure, local chemistry. Further, secondary effects such as erosion and sedimentation could differentially deposit minerals according to physical characteristics, even if the starting mineral material were homogeneous.
Answered by Jerry P - Fri Apr 13 14:36:47 2007

Is Maybelline mineral powder foundation just as good as the bare minerals you see like on tv?
Q. I'd like to find out because I really don't want to spend alot of $$$ on the bare minerals powder foundation.
Asked by angelicgirljr - Tue Jul 15 17:45:41 2008 - - 6 Answers - 1 Comments

A. hey, well i havent yoused the bare minerals but i have the mineral powder by maybelline and it works just great and its really good i dont care how bare minerals is cause this is all i need they give you a brush to put it on with as well
Answered by sometimesyoujustdontknow - Wed Jul 16 23:57:15 2008