Types of Processes. We introduced the product-process matrix and four types of processes in Chapter 2--projects, batch production, mass production, and continuous production. Let us look at them more closely here and explore the implications of process choice for a firm. Projects. Projects represent one-of-a-kind production for an individual customer.
1 Minerals are inorganic as they exist naturally in the soil and water. 2  Minerals are organic as they exist in plants and animals. 3  Only plants can transform inorganic minerals into organic minerals.  Animals must eat plants or plant-eating animals to obtain their organic minerals.
Note also that the minerals as used in the nutritional sense are not minerals as defined geologically. Examples. 1  Glass-can be naturally formed (volcanic glass called obsidian), is a solid, its chemical composition, however, is not always the same, and it does not have a crystalline structure. mineral is. 1  Naturally formed-it forms in nature on its own (some say without the aid of humans]. 2  Solid (it cannot be a liquid or a gas). 3  With a definite chemical composition (every time we see the same mineral it has the same chemical composition that can be expressed by a chemical formula).