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can color be a denitive factor in determinig a mineral
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What factors can change the color of a mineral?
Air, water, and impurities can change the color of a mineral.
What color is mica the mineral's streak?
Even though it's a blackish/brown mineral, it leaves a WHITE streak.
What color is the mineral quartzite?
Quartzite can appear in many colors.
What are sapphires made from?
Sapphires are composed of the mineral corundum and impurities that gave it its color.
Is it true that a streak is the texture of a thin layer of the powdered mineral?
No. Streak refers to the color of a powdered mineral. The texture is in reference to a rock's crystal size or orientation.
How reliable is color when determining what a mineral is?
Color is the least reliable of a mineral's characteristics used in its identification.
What factor can change a color of minerals?
Air, water, and impurities can change the color of a mineral.
Air and water can change the color of a mineral. What other factor can change it's color?
impurities can
What other factor beside air and water can change the color of mineral?
fire?
What can you eat to have a baby with color eyes?
Diet is not a factor in determining the colour of a baby's eyes. It depends on the genetics of the parents.
What is the difference between a scratch test and a streak test?
a streak test is a test wheree you rub a mineral across a streak plate to see the color of its streak, which is a better indentifying factor of the mineral than the external color. A scratch test is when you scratch a mineral to find out its hardness on the Mohs Scale of Hardness. This is also another useful identifying factor
What is the streak color of the mineral calcite?
Streak is the color of a crushed mineral's powder. The color of a mineral's powder may differ from the actual color of the mineral. This property can be useful for mineral identification.Almost every mineral has an inherent streak color, no matter what color the actual mineral is.
The color of a mineral powder is its?
The streak of the mineral is the mineral's powder color
Classifications of minerals?
A rock's mineral composition is a determining factor in rock identification.
What is the difference between color and streak in minerals?
Color is the observable color of a mineral specimen in natural light. Streak is the color of a mineral when powdered. The color of a specific mineral specimen may be different than its streak color. Because many impurities can alter the color of a mineral, but not the streak, streak is a more accurate predictor in mineral identification.
How do you determine a mineral’s streak?
The color of a mineral in powdered form is called the mineral's Streak
What is the color of mineral's powder called?
there is no name for the color, but there is the "streak" of a mineral, meaning the color of its streak.
