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What is The tendency of minerals to break along smooth flat surfaces is called?
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The tendency of minerals to break along smooth flat surfaces is called .?
cleavage
What is the property that causes some minerals to break along smooth flat surfaces?
This property is called cleavage.
Why would cleavage be important to gem cutters who cut shape gemstones?
It would be important because cleavage is a tendency of some minerals to break along smooth, flat surfaces.
Cleavage is the tendecy of some minarelsto break along?
Cleavage is the tendency of some minerals to fracture or break alongflat three dimensional planes. The surfaces are usually smooth to the touch.
What is the tendency of a mineral to break along parallel planar surfaces called?
Cleavage
The tendency of minerals to break along a smooth flat surface?
Cleavages
What causes minerals to break along smooth flat surfaces?
Cleavage
What causes some minerals to break along smootH surfaces?
Cleavage
What is the tendency of a mineral to break along planes of weakness producing smooth parallel breaks known as?
Cleavage is the tendency of a minerals to break along flat surfaces. It means that the make up of the mineral is uneven, dense on one side and not dense in the other, causing the mineral to break along flat surfaces. The tendency of a mineral to break irregurlary is fracture.
Tendency to break along smooth flat surfaces?
Many minerals have "cleavage" that causes them to split on flat cleavage planes. Such minerals include micas (muscovite, biotite. phlogopite), calcite, gypsum, and feldspars. Cleavage is the result of the minerals' crystal structure that has weaker chemical bonds aligned in planes.
What scientist use to determine a minerals resistance to being scratched?
Moh's hardness scale was used to determine a mineral's resistance to being scratched. The tendency of a mineral to break along smooth flat surfaces is cleavage.
What is a minerals cleavage?
Cleavage is the tendency of a mineral to break along smooth planes parallel to zones of weak bonding.
