use the samples; diamond, dolomite, gneiss, and chalk and provide your analysis of composition and identification based on their identification characteristics.

Diamond-

Physical identification characters:

Color-  White or Colorless

Lusture - admantine

Streak - Colorkess

Habit - Hour glass structure

Hardness - 10

Cleavage- octaheadral

Composition- pure carbon

Specific gravity-3.5

Dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2

Color - Colorless or white

Hardness is between 3-4

Reacts with any acid

Gneiss

Light and dark strip or banding present alternatively

biotite , pyroxene have Mafic mineral shows dark banding

Quartz, Feldspar have  Felsic mineral for light banding

High grade metmorphic rock which is formed due to regional metamorphism of lower grade rock

Chalk(CaCO3)

Color-White

Very fragile

Hardness-1

With acid gives effervescence.

the nitrogen cycle provides nitrogen to the ecosystem from the atmosphere, ground and oceans. nitrogen is an important component of complex molecules such as amino acids and nucleotides, which lead to the creation of proteins and dna, the building blocks of all life. plants absorb nitrogen in the form of ammonium, nitrate ion and, on rare occasions, as amino acids. animals receive nitrogen necessary for biological processes from feeding on living or dead organic matter.