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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:mineral
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Accession:CHEBI:46662 term browser browse the term
Definition:In general, a mineral is a chemical substance that is normally crystalline formed and has been formed as a result of geological processes. The term also includes metamict substances (naturally occurring, formerly crystalline substances whose crystallinity has been destroyed by ionising radiation) and can include naturally occurring amorphous substances that have never been crystalline ('mineraloids') such as georgite and calciouranoite as well as substances formed by the action of geological processes on bigenic compounds ('biogenic minerals').
Synonyms:related_synonym: Minerale;   minerales;   minerals;   mineraux
 xref: Wikipedia:Mineral



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  CHEBI ontology 498
    chemical entity 498
      chemical substance 39
        mineral 0
          azurite 0
          biogenic mineral + 0
          carbonate mineral + 0
          diatomaceous earth + 0
          disodium tetraborate + 0
          disodium tetraborate decahydrate 0
          disodium tetraborate octahydrate 0
          halide mineral + 0
          hydrated silica + 0
          mineral nutrient + 0
          native element mineral + 0
          oxide mineral + 0
          phosphate mineral + 0
          silicate mineral + 0
          sulfate mineral 0
          sulfide mineral + 0
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