DK Nature Guide

Did you know culinary salt is the mineral halite? Or that the pigment vermillion is powdered cinnabar, a mineral whose name comes from the Persian for “dragon’s blood”?

Discover the extraordinary mine

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• Series: DK Nature Guide
• Author: DK
• Binding: Paperback
• Page Count: 352
• Publish Date: June 18 2012
• ISBN10: 0756690420
• Language: English