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Which mineral is an ore of iron and has a characteristic of reddish brown streak?
The mineral is hematite.
How do you streak in a sentence?
a black mineral can have a brown streak.
Which rock characteristic below is is the color of powdered mineral?
the answer is STREAK
How do you use streak in a sentence?
a black mineral can have a brown streak.
Which mineral characteristic is NOT determined by the way the atoms within a mineral are arranged?
color, streak and age
Color of powered mineral?
It's referred to as the streak, the color of which is used as an identifying characteristic of minerals.
What is the mineral streak?
Black And Grayish
What mineral contains iron has metallic luster and has a streak that is the same color as the mineral?
Magnetite can be black and it has a black streak. It is metallic and iron ore
Why are streak plates used to test minerails?
Scratching a mineral across a streak plate will result in a streak which represents the true color of a mineral without impurities or inclusions that can influence a particular specimen's color. The mineral quartz can appear in a wide variety of colors, but the streak of any colored quartz specimen will still be white. The 'streak' color is one characteristic of a mineral which will aid in its identification.
What color streak does the mineral silica produce?
black/silver
What test is best used to distinguish a nonmetallic mineral from a metallic mineral?
Streak Test, because nonmetallic minerals typically streak colorless/white, and metallic minerals typically streaks dark/characteristic color.
How can porcelain tile be used to idintify a mineral?
Mineral samples can be scraped across the bottom (i.e., the unglazed side) of a tile to create a colour streak which is characteristic of the mineral. Note that it takes more than a colour streak to identify a mineral. Many minerals have the same colour streak. Other characteristics such as the hardness and density will also need to be determined in order to positively identify a mineral.
