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Small amounts of different elements in the same mineral can change the what of the mineral?
colour, density and hardness.
What colour is the mineral galena?
Galena is a lead gray color. Galena is the natural mineral form of lead sulfide, and an important source of silver.
What mineral is known as the peacock ore?
The mineral is called bornite.
Weight of a mineral called graphite?
That depends on how much mineral you have.
How are slate and shale alike?
Dark Colour, Clay mineral composition (Kaolanite), Laminations of minerals
Name extremely common mineral with a yellow-green colour called peridot when gemstone quality?
Olivine
Why is feldspar pink?
that is the colour of the mineral
What is the mineral colour of limestone?
White.
Is gold a rock or a mineral?
It is both. The metal gold exists as a mineral in the Earth, and its distinctive colour is used to describe the colouring of other objects. A similar thing happens with orange, the colour and the fruit.
What colour is the mineral haematite?
Hematite is black.
What color is mineral type brake fluid?
what colour is mineral type brak fluid
How can porcelain tile be used to idintify a mineral?
Mineral samples can be scraped across the bottom (i.e., the unglazed side) of a tile to create a colour streak which is characteristic of the mineral. Note that it takes more than a colour streak to identify a mineral. Many minerals have the same colour streak. Other characteristics such as the hardness and density will also need to be determined in order to positively identify a mineral.
Small amounts of different elements in the same mineral can change the what of the mineral?
colour, density and hardness.
What is the colour of the mineral beryl when it contains chromium?
green
What is the purpose of the plate?
A streak plate is used to determine the streak colour of a mineral. You take the mineral and scratch it against the streak plate, and it will create a coloured streak on the plate. The streak is not always the same colour as the mineral itself.
Are minerals always brightly colored?
No, famously, graphite is a dull grey colour. And copper salts are generally green or blue in colour. It all depends on the mineral. The colour of a mineral is one of its several distinctive characteristics, others are hardness, its density, its cleavage, its lustre, and so on. Each of these are of aid in mineral identification.
How do you determine a mineral’s streak?
The color of a mineral in powdered form is called the mineral's Streak
