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Describe types of minerals and compounds in the solar system?

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The solar system has both organic and inorganic compounds some of the most important are carbon dioxide (found in abundance on Venus), methane, water, ammonium etc. The interesting thing is that this list is topped by water. Earth also has silicon dioxide and many iron compounds and sulfur compounds are also found in abundance in solar system .

Some of the important minerals are iron, cobalt, nickel, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, helium, neon, silicon, magnesium, sulfur, nitrogen etc. Most of the planets have iron and nickle in their cores as it helps them in gaining magnetic properties. Asteroids are rich in iron, cobalt and when they fall on a planet, they become source of iron .

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