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What color does garnet leave on a streak plate?
Regardless of the color of the garnet specimen, it would leave a white streak.
Can all minerals produce a streak on a porcelain plate?
Those minerals that are harder than the unglazed porcelain streak plate will scratch it rather than leave a streak.
Do all mineral leave a streak?
Shale is a type of rock, not a mineral. Streak is used to help classify minerals. It can leave a streak, but it doesn't mean anything.
Would silver leave a streak on paper?
It leaves a brown streak.
What is the streak color gneiss?
Bearing in mind that Gneiss is not a mineral, and that it is very hard, Gneiss does not leave a streak, but scratches the plate (don't try it - this is not how you classify Gneiss). Gneiss is classified by its Gneissose Banding - distinct bands of light Feldspar/Quartz and dark Micas. It is also classified by the extent of metamorphism which has taken place.
What color streak does garnet leave?
Garnet leaves no color in a streak test .
What color does garnet leave on a streak plate?
Regardless of the color of the garnet specimen, it would leave a white streak.
What test is used to identify a minerals color?
A streak test is used to determine a minerals streak color. This can help in with the identification of minerals. A streak test is performed by rubbing the mineral on an unglazed ceraminc tile, then observing the color of the streak which is left behind. All minerals do not leave streaks. Harder minerals will not streak, but this can also be used as a tool for identifying the mineral, if you are familiar with the hardness scale.
What happens if you rub the mineral across a streak plate but the mineral does not leave a streak?
The lack of a streak would indicate that the mineral is harder than the streak plate, or the color of the streak is the same as the color of the streak plate.
What streak does gypsum leave behind?
Zinc has a slightly to light greyish streak.
What color streak does the mineral nickel leave?
Nickel leaves a silver-gray streak. Note that nickel is an element.
How is a minterals streak determinded?
Streak color is determined by scraping the mineral across a a streak plate, (which is made of unglazed porcelain), and then observing the color of the streak, which is left on the plate. Note that some minerals do not leave a streak, as they are too hard. Thus, it is important to learn other identification methods, to use in conjunction with streak color, in order to identify minerals.
What organism leaves a slimy streak?
I think that slugs leave a slimy trail behind them.
Will diamond leave a streak on a streak plate?
Diamond will not leave a streak on a porcelain streak plate because diamond is harder than the streak plate. It will leave a scratch on the streak plate for the same reason.
What stone is whitish- gray with a nonmetallic luster that leave a colorless streak?
What is a whitish gray stones that leaves a colorless streak behind and is nonmitallic
The calor a mineral leaves when it is rubbed across a plate?
Streak is the color of the finely powdered mineral when rubbed across a plate. Streak is one of the physical properties of minerals used to identify which specific mineral it is. Some minerals leave a completely different color streak than the original color of the whole mineral.
Will graphite leave a clear streak?
Graphite is a mineral that does not leave a clear streak.
