How Many Mineral Have Been Identified and Described

question 73

Short Answer

How many mineral have been identified and described?

---

Definitions:

Sealed-Bid

A bidding process where all bidders submit their bids simultaneously in sealed envelopes, without knowing the bid amounts of other participants.

Lemons

In economics, refers to products of lower quality that cannot be distinguished from higher quality products before purchase, derived from the market for used cars analyzed by George Akerlof.

Expected Value

A statistic that measures the mean, or average, outcome of a set of probabilities or a random variable.

English Auction

A method of auctioning in which the price ascends with successive bids and remains with the highest bidder who then wins the auctioned item.