9. When you think of a lobster, you might think of a bright red creature. Most lobsters are a brown to olive-green color in the wild, with only a reddish tinge. Lobsters have a carotenoid pigment called astaxanthin in their shell, which provides a red coloring.
Is granite homogeneous or heterogeneous substance? Granite is a heterogeneous substance. This is due to the fact that it does not appear to be consistently made of one material.
Granite is an igneous rock made up of primarily quartz, feldspar, micas, amphiboles, and a mixture of additional trace minerals. These minerals and their variation in abundance and alteration give granite the numerous colors and textures we see in granite countertops.