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Explain how to identify a mineral using color luster streak hardness cleavage fracture?
Luster is the light reflection a mineral has, which can be broken down into categories like metallic, silky, and dull. The luster dictates what type of mineral it is.
Can you identify a mineral by its physical properties?
Color, reflectivity, purity. Just to name a few.
What is the eight ways to identify a mineral?
By the mineral color, streak color, luster, hardness, the property of the mineral, if it's fracture or cleavage and it's specific gravity. Those are just basic, so there's many other ways to ID a mineral.
7 properties of a mineral?
color, hardness, chemical composition, system of crystallization, refractive index, luster, magnetic properties, radioactivity, fracture characteristics, etc.
What are the 6 properties used to identify mineral?
In a hand sample/specimen you can the properties used to identify minerals are luster, diaphaneity, color, streak, luminescence, play of colors, crystal shape, tenacity, cleavage, hardness, specific gravity and density, magnetism, electrical properties, reaction to acid.
What is the difference between luster and streak?
Luster is the way a mineral reflects in the light. Streak is the color of a mineral in powdered form.
How are color and luster similar and different?
i asked my teacher and he said just to put metallic or shiny to describe the color. the luster is metallic according to my book.
What is the hardness luster and streak color of a diamond?
The color is clear, the hardness is the hardest thing in the world, and the luster is pearly.
How are mineral indentify?
Minerals can be identified by such as their color, streak, luster, and their hardness. What does streak, and luster mean?Streak-- Is the color of a mineral's powder for example: talc is a mineral and it is also powder and its streak is white.Luster-- Is the way a mineral reflects light from it's surface for example: glassy, pearly, silky, metallic and earthy can be words to describe luster.
What are the four things that a mineral must have?
color,luster,streak,reflections
What is the color of luster?
Luster is not a color, but a visible characteristic of the mineral's reflection of light off it's surface. In this case, the color of biotite is dark brown to black, but it's luster would be described as vitreous or glassy.
What is a special mineral propertie?
Fracture, cleavage, luster, hardness, color ect. a property a mineral posesses.
Explain how to identify a mineral using color luster streak hardness cleavage fracture?
Luster is the light reflection a mineral has, which can be broken down into categories like metallic, silky, and dull. The luster dictates what type of mineral it is.
What color is the Luster of biotite?
Luster is not a color, but a visible characteristic of the mineral's reflection of light off it's surface. In this case, the color of biotite is dark brown to black, but it's luster would be described as vitreous or glassy.
What two ways can the appearance of a mineral help to identify it?
the color and streak or luster
What properties does a mineral?
color, luster, fracture/cleavage, streak, hardness, density
What mineral has metalic luster silver color black streak and contains iron?
Magnetite.Has metallic luster, silver color, black streak, and contains (Fe) Iron.
