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Different minerals have different contents. Iron, magnesium, silicon, oxygen, and aluminum are some of the elements commonly found in minerals.
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What is the most unreliable characteristic of a mineral?
Color, due to the effects of impurities, is the least reliable identifying mineral characteristic.
What is a mi mineraloid?
It is important to distinguish between a mineral and a mineraloid. A mineral is an inorganic, naturally occurring substance that has a characteristic chemical composition, distinctive physical properties, and solid crystalline structure (an order 3 dimensional arrangement of atoms or molecules). If it does not have this solid crystalline structure, it is not a true mineral and is therefore a "mineraloid."
Which of the following in not a main characteristic of a mineral?
man-made
What is both a mineral and a substance?
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What does it mean to say that a mineral has a definite chemical composition?
In mineralogy, definite chemical composition refers to a characteristic that a substance must possess to meet the definition of a mineral. It is the narrow parameter of chemical compositions that a substance must have to be described as a particular mineral separate from other minerals.
List the five characteristic a substance must have to be a mineral explain why coal and a glass marble are not minerals?
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What makes sodium a mineral?
It's a simple anorganic substance, an element in fact.
What is a defintite chemical composition?
In mineralogy, definite chemical composition refers to a characteristic that a substance must possess to meet the definition of a mineral. It is the narrow parameter of chemical compositions that a substance must have to be described as a particular mineral separate from other minerals.
What is a characteristic property of the mineral pyrite?
The characteristic property of the mineral pyrite is sand it is very shiny
What is solid mineral?
A mineral is, by definition, a solid substance.
What property help to distinguish one substance from another?
a characteristic of property is a property that makes a particular substance distinct from others.
What is the most unreliable characteristic of a mineral?
Color, due to the effects of impurities, is the least reliable identifying mineral characteristic.
How Is coal a mineral?
Coal is not a mineral. A mineral is a solid non-organic substance. Coal is an organic substance.
What is the mineral substance in bone?
Hydroxylapatite is the mineral substance in bone. It is a calcium compound.
Are man made diamonds a mineral?
According to Wikipedia's definition of mineral, no. "A mineral is a naturally occurring solid chemical substance formed through biogeochemical processes, having characteristic chemical composition, highly ordered atomic structure, and specific physical properties."
Is a mineral soft?
No, a mineral is a hard substance
What characteristic of a mineral?
rough, sharp
