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What is the line or streak across a muscle called?
Microscopically you could be seeing sacromeres. Otherwise, these streaks are called striations.
Rubbing a mineral sample across unglazed ceramic is the usual way of determining?
Streak
When you drag a piece of calcite across an unglazed porcelain plat it leaves behing a white line?
Streak
Which group of minerals is streak most useful for?
The colour of the streak left by a mineral is one of the features used to identify it. For instance, haematite leaves a red streak, malachite leaves a light green streak, while quartz, calcite and gypsum all leave a white streak.
When some minerals are rubbed across unglazed porcelain they leave a streak of powdered material true or false?
True
What is the line or streak across a muscle called?
Microscopically you could be seeing sacromeres. Otherwise, these streaks are called striations.
Do comets streak across the sky when they pass by earth?
yes they do streak
Use the word streak in a sentence?
I like that streak of blonde in your hair. I saw a jet streak across the sky.
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.
How do you find the streak of a rock?
You can find the streak color of a rock by sliding a rock across a tile
How would you use the word streak in a sentence?
The comet was seen to streak across the evening sky.
What is a streak plate?
A streak plate is a surface of unglazed ceramic, used to find the true color of a mineral specimen by drawing the specimen across it. The color of the resultant powder is referred to as the streak or streak color of a mineral.
What is the muscle that runs across the body called?
There is no muscle that runs ACROSS the body except the diaphragm.
What is a streak?
In Geology, the 'streak test' is used to identify a mineral by either grinding it to a powder, or scraping across a rough surface to study the streak left behind. It also tests a mineral's hardness.
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.
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.
What test is used to identify gold from pyrite?
When dragged across a streak plate, gold will leave a yellow streak, pyrite will leave a greenish-black streak. It is one way of differentiating gold from pyrite.
