Halite is rock salt. It tastes salty.
Halite. Salt IS a mineral, a rock. Its name, when you find it on the ground in its natural form, is Halite.
Halite. its rock salt and tastes salty.
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Halite has perfect cleavage in 3 planes or axes at right angles, meaning halite often forms nearly perfect cubes.
There are many minerals that taste salty. One example is halite, also known as rock salt. Minerals with taster are sometimes water soluble.
Halite is a mineral but also it is salt. So it tastes like salt, or salty
Halite. Salt IS a mineral, a rock. Its name, when you find it on the ground in its natural form, is Halite.
With your tongue.
Halite. its rock salt and tastes salty.
Perhaps Rock Salt or Halite (NaCl). ========================== The halide group of minerals like halite (table salt).
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Halite will be easily soluble in water, calcite won't. Calcite has excellent rhombohedral cleavage, halite has excellent cubic cleavage. Halite will taste salty, calcite won't.
Lick some table salt and you'll experience it firsthand.
Halite is another name for table salt NaCl.
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Halite is a very soft mineral on the Mohs Hardness Scale. Generally around 2-2.5. The type of cleavage is cubic, meaning 3 directions at 90 degrees. A very diagnostic property is that it has a salty taste. Also halite tends to be transparent.