GOLD - dental work
- electronics (circuit boards)
- space applications
- jewelry
- money
COPPER - electrical wire
- coins
- bronze (alloy copper + tin)
- brass (copper + zinc)
ALUMINUM - cans
- framing metal for airplanes
TIN - foot container coating
- bronze
- solder (variable: tin + lead)
- pewter (tin ± lead + antimony)
ANTIMONY
ZINC - galvanizing
- "sacrificial" anode(marine use)
- brass (zinc + copper)
IRON
TITANIUM - white paint pigment
- submarine hulls
- (strong, lightweight, non-magnetic metal)
- military aircraft
- label on "M&Ms"
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SALT- bakery products (bread
etc.)
- dairy products (butter etc.)
- salt licks for animals
- table use
- ice control
- production of Na (sodium) metal
- production of Cl (chlorine) gas
LIMESTONE - soil sweetener
(change pH)
- crushed rock (aggregate)
- Portland cement manufacture
- paint (as a filler)
- paper (as a filler)
GYPSUM - manufacture of cement
- Plaster of Paris
- soil conditioner
- toothpaste
- bakery products (as a filler)
- filler in crayons
BARITE - drilling mud for oil wells medicine (coats soft parts for
X-rays)
- prints (as a filler)
ZEOLITES - water softener
- pig deodorant
- adsorbent for polluting materials
- (radioactive elements, oil, etc.)
ANHYDRITE - soil conditioner (peanuts!)
- cement for coal mine roof support
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