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title: "Did you know about bendable rocks?"  
description: "A brief explanation about the bendable rocks and its features"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-11-08  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/3161/did-you-know-about-bendable-rocks  
category: "science"  
tags: ["bendable rocks", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Did you know about bendable rocks?

![Did you know about bendable rocks](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/45b7cb16-ac88-4afa-b166-4587eec93763/images/01142642-5240-48b4-b58c-176eca120b4c.jpeg) ![Did you know about bendable rocks](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/45b7cb16-ac88-4afa-b166-4587eec93763/images/e5aff001-b0df-4935-b229-0caaa52a4970.jpeg) Bendable rocks, also known as flexible rocks, are rare rocks and can be bent without breaking. ![Did you know about bendable rocks](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/45b7cb16-ac88-4afa-b166-4587eec93763/images/8f283f00-efd1-4812-97c4-63c8837a174d.jpeg) Itacolumite, a sandstone from Brazil, being a notable example. ![Did you know about bendable rocks](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/45b7cb16-ac88-4afa-b166-4587eec93763/images/82030d72-91d3-4055-a7a8-03f7c462f12f.jpeg) Itacolumite is flexible because of the interlocking quartz grains that are kept together by a weak cement, allowing the rock to bend without breaking. ![Did you know about bendable rocks](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/45b7cb16-ac88-4afa-b166-4587eec93763/images/5715bf88-6008-4758-94b4-590e5c6ced9f.jpeg) Slate and schist are two more metamorphic rocks that are flexible in nature. ![Did you know about bendable rocks](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/45b7cb16-ac88-4afa-b166-4587eec93763/images/1c35eb23-9ed5-4623-a5da-2d6ba87b60d4.jpeg) Because of their parallel mineral alignment, metamorphic rocks, created by heat and pressure, are flexible slate and schist.

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