Best Answer: Butterscotch is a type of confectionery made by boiling sugar syrup, butter, cream, and vanilla. In many ways the ingredients for butterscotch are similar to toffee; the major difference is that the sugar is boiled to the soft crack stage for butterscotch and the hard crack stage for toffee.
The simplest minerals, such as graphite and diamond, contain only. one chemical element. Minerals such as these are called native elements. Other native elements that have been found in Pennsylvania include. sulfur (S), copper (Cu), and very rarely, silver (Ag) and gold (Au).
Native elements are minerals that contain only atoms of one type of element. The elements are not combined with other elements. In nature most elements are combined with other elements to form chemical compounds. So, the native elements mineral group contains a relatively small number of minerals. One mineral contains the elements zinc, carbon, and oxygen. 2  The other mineral contains the elements zinc, silicon, oxygen, and hydrogen. 3  Your friend tells you that the minerals are in the same mineral group.