les roches et le minéraux
| les roches rocks | les minéraux minerals | le granit granite |
| l’obsidienne obsidian | le basalte basalt | la pierre ponce pumice |
| sédimentaire sedimentary | le calcaire limestone | la craie chalk |
| le silex flint | le charbon coal | le conglomérat conglomerate |
| le grès sandstone | méamorphique metamorphic |
le gneiss gneiss |
| le marbre marble | le schiste schist | l’ardoise slate |
| les gemmes gems | le rubis ruby | l’aigue-marine aquamarine |
| le jade jade | l’émeraude emerald | le saphir saphire |
| la toumaline toumaline | le topaze topaz | le grenat garnet |
| la pierre de lune moonstone | l’opale opal | le jais jet |
| l‘améthyste amethyst |
le rubis ruby | les minéraux minerals |
| l’onyx onyx | l’agate agate | la graphite graphite |
| la turquoise turquoise | la malachite malachite | l’hématite hematite |
| la calcite calcite | le souphre sulpher | le mica mica |
| le quartz quartz | les métaux metals | l’or gold |
| l’argent silver | le platine platinum | le fer iron |
| le nickel nickel | le zinc zinc | le mercure mercury |
| l’aluminium aluminium | l’étain tin | le cuivre copper |
Here you will find a complete list of French vocabulary words for rocks and minerals. The good news is that almost all of the words associated with geology (la géologie) in English and French come directly from Latin and therefore are almost all the same. for example, granite is “le granit” and nickel is “le nickel”. Some of the metal words in French are similar to their English equivalents on the Periodical Table of Elements. For example, gold is “l’or” and iron is “le fer”.
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