Sand
Loose mineral grains between 0.063 and 2 millimetres across, as ISO 14688-1 bounds the sand fraction.
How it connects
Sand is a kind of Mineral.
Other kinds of Mineral: Aluminium hydroxide, Barium sulfate, Calcium carbonate, Carbon black, Cementitious, Ceramic, Clay, Feldspar, Filler, Flame retardant additive, Glass, Gypsum, Jade, Mica, Mineral oxide, Mineral wool, Obsidian, Pigment, Plaster, Plasterboard, Silica, Silicon, Stone, Talc and Zinc sulfide.
In other taxonomies
- SandUniclass, Pr_15_31_26_75nearly the same
- sandGetty AAT, 300014341nearly the same
- sandWikidata, Q34679nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Top of the axis
- Mineral26
Sand
26 terms, Ceramic to Aluminium hydroxide
The word “sand”
3 meanings
- SandMaterial, this termNo default
- sandColorScope named colorNo default
- beigeColorScope color familyNo default
Record
- Seen in the wild
- silica sand · quartz sand
- Broader
- Mineral
- Provenance
- referencedcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); ISO 14688-1:2017, read 22 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/sandKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- narrowerMineralincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderMineraloutgoing
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Mineraloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Aluminium hydroxideoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Barium sulfateoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Calcium carbonateoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Carbon blackoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Cementitiousoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Ceramicoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Clayoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Feldsparoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Filleroutgoing
- sibling (derived)Flame retardant additiveoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Glassoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Gypsumoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Jadeoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Micaoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Mineral oxideoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Mineral wooloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Obsidianoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Pigmentoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Plasteroutgoing
- sibling (derived)Plasterboardoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Silicaoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Siliconoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Stoneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Talcoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Zinc sulfideoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | Pr_15_31_26_75 | Sand | nearly the same |
| Getty AAT | 300014341 | sand | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q34679 | sand | nearly the same |