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What does it mean for a rock to be matallic?
When a rock is metallic, it is made of metal. That is, it has a high electrical conductivity and tends to form cations instead of anions. In laymen's terms, it's shiny and is one of several elements that makes up the bulk of the periodic table of elements.
What structure does an metallic bond have?
A metallic bond is spread around a lattice of metal atoms. There are free electrons and these are sometimes called a sea of electrons. In chemistry bonding terms you can view metallic bonds as hugley delocalised orbitals, or if you prefer as resonance between many covalent bonds.
What's meaning of precipitation titration?
Definition of various terms used in Volumetric analysis ... Most of metallic halides are titrated by precipitation method.
Radiological and chemical are terms that are used to describe?
Oncologic (cancer) treatment, for one.
What are the three basic terms to describe colors?
The answers are:*hue*Value*Intensity
Earthy shiney waxy mattalic and pearly are terms used to describe a mineral's what?
Earthy shiney waxy mattalic and pearly are terms used to describe a mineral's surface.
What are some terms used to describe non metallic luster in minerals?
Luster is categorized as metallic or non-metallic. Metallic luster is highly reflective, like chrome. Non-metallic is further divided by names such as dull, glassy, adamantine, waxy, silky, pearly, and greasy.
What does luster mean in a mineral?
Luster refers to the appearance of reflected light by a mineral crystal. Luster is categorized as metallic or non-metallic. Metallic luster is highly reflective, like chrome. Non-metallic is further divided by names such as dull, glassy, adamantine, waxy, silky, pearly, and greasy.
Do covalent compounds display luster?
Yes. The question is what TYPE of luster. Luster is, to put it in layman's terms, a description of how "shiny" something is. Everything has a luster; it could be metallic, greasy, or flat.
Is gold igneous metamorphic or sedimentary?
Sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic are terms used to describe the processes in formation and types of rocks. Gold is a mineral, therefore these terms do not apply. Gold is an elemental metallic mineral.
What is flat colors?
It is not the color that is flat, it is the surface that is either glossy (very shiny, like a new car), or semi-gloss (not as shiny, but still a little shiny), or flat (not shiny at all, though still smooth). These terms are usually used to describe what a wall or other surface will look like when paint has been applied and dries.
What is a flat color?
It is not the color that is flat, it is the surface that is either glossy (very shiny, like a new car), or semi-gloss (not as shiny, but still a little shiny), or flat (not shiny at all, though still smooth). These terms are usually used to describe what a wall or other surface will look like when paint has been applied and dries.
What is another word for glitter?
The most common terms to describe lustre are: adamantine (diamond-like), dull (non-reflective), greasy (fat-like), metallic (shiny), pearly (pearl-like), resinous (resin-like), silky (fine fibres), vitreous (glass-like), and waxy (wax-like).
Which property of minerals may be described as dull silky waxy and pearly?
These are terms that reference the mineral's luster (or lustre).
Why is copper more metallic than it should be in theory?
Either something is a metal, and is therefore metallic, or it is not. The terms are fixed.
Jacket is the terms desrribes the metallic core of a wire?
The answer is Armor
What does it mean for a rock to be matallic?
When a rock is metallic, it is made of metal. That is, it has a high electrical conductivity and tends to form cations instead of anions. In laymen's terms, it's shiny and is one of several elements that makes up the bulk of the periodic table of elements.
