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Properties used to identify minerals.
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What are 7 ways to determine the identity of a mineral?
Coler,luster,streak,cleavage,fracture,hardness, and density
Which of the following characteristics is least useful in identifying a mineral?
habit, color, streak, luster, density, hardness, cleavage, fracture, tenacity
What are the 5 characteristics for a mineral?
1.Color 2.Luster 3.Crystal Shape 4.Flourscent 5.Hardness 6.Density
Name 3 common minerals and how to recognize them?
1. Halite (table salt) can be identified by is salty taste, nonmetallic luster, 2.5 hardness, white streak, and its cubic shape. 2. Quartz can be identified by its nonmetallic luster, 7 hardness, white streak, and its (generally) hexagonal prism or pyramid shape. 3. Talc can be identified by its greasy, nonmetallic luster, 1 hardness, white color and streak, and lack of cleavage.
What five characteristics do geologists use to identify a mineral?
There are many properties useful in identifying minerals. The five that are most useful are cleavage, crystal habit, hardness, luster, and streak.
What properties does a mineral?
color, luster, fracture/cleavage, streak, hardness, density
What are the 5 properties?
the 5 properties are cleavage hardness luster color streak
What properties are used to identify rocks and minerals?
Hardness, Cleavage, Luster, Color, Streak, and Texture.
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.
What are 7 ways to determine the identity of a mineral?
Coler,luster,streak,cleavage,fracture,hardness, and density
What are the seven characteristics used to identify minerals?
color streak cleavage fracture hardness transparency luster
What are three types of mineral luster?
Glassy luster, Metallic luster and Waxy luster.
What are the different types of rock tests?
Hardness, colour, streak, cleavage, luster, crystal shape, to name a few.
What is another property in identifying a mineral?
The properties in identifying minerals are color,luster,hardness,cleavage and fracture,and streak.
What are the 7 properties minerals?
7 Properties include: Hardness, luster, streak, cleavage, density, color, and fracture.
What are ways to identify igneous rocks?
You can use the characteristics(color, luster, streak, hardness, cleavage, fracture, and crystal).
What are the 7 properties of minerals?
7 Properties include: Hardness, luster, streak, cleavage, density, color, and fracture.
