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What is the color of the mark made when a mineral sample is rubbed on a harder surface?
The mark is called a streak and the color depends on what mineral you are testing.
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.
How do you determine a mineral’s streak?
The color of a mineral in powdered form is called the mineral's Streak
The true color of a mineral is called?
The color of the powdered form of a mineral is called
Why is mineral's streak more useful in identifying a mineral than its color?
Because color can vary based on the purity of the mineral.
What is color of a mineral?
it depends on what mineral you are observing.
What is a mineral color?
it depends.
What is a characteristic that depends on which parts of the visible light spectrum are reflected from a mineral?
the mineral's "color"
What mineral makes the color blue?
It depends on what you mean by mineral. A mineral is a 'wide range' term. The only one I know of is Alexandrite, but that is a color-changing mineral, not exactly blue all of the time.
What is the color of the mark made when a mineral sample is rubbed on a harder surface?
The mark is called a streak and the color depends on what mineral you are testing.
How can mineral composition affect a rocks color?
No. It can vary from the visible color of the mineral and, since visible color of them ineral is not a reliable indicator of type, it is important to learn to use streak, (along with other factors), to correctly identify a mineral.
What is the color of the powder left behind when a mineral is scratched?
It depends on the miniral you are scratching
Why is it hard to tell what a mineral is just by color?
it is not a good idea to identify a rock or mineral by it's color because the color of the rock can change and when looking at facts on that rock/mineral it may not say the color that you have. that is why there are other ways as well as color. but don't get me wrong because some things can be identified by the color so it really depends.
What color is stalactite?
A Stalactite is formed from seepage. The colour depends on which mineral is dissolved in the liquid.
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
What is the color of schist?
The color of schist depends on its mineral composition. It can be gray, yellow, light or dark green, brown, or even black.
