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Different minerals have different colors, actually.
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What property is used to identify minerals uses the color of the mineral when it's broken up?
StreakColor of the mineral when it is powdered.Grind a small amount of a mineral into a powder on a porcelain streak plate and determine the color of the powder.
The property of a mineral that shows the color or powder is called?
The term for this that I've always heard is "streak".
What can you rub a mineral on to leave a clue what the mineral?
A streak plate, or unglazed white porcelain tile, is used to perform streak tests which can help to identify minerals. Rubbing the mineral on the streak plate will finely powder it and reveal the color of the powder, which in some cases is quite different from the color of the mineral. Eg: hematite is black but has a red streak - a good way to tell you have hematite instead of one of the many other shiny black minerals.
What is the powder of a mineral called?
Streak
A mineral used for baby powder?
The mineral with a silky luster that is used in baby powder is talc. Baby powder also contains a mixture of magnesium.
What is the streak color of the mineral calcite?
Streak is the color of a crushed mineral's powder. The color of a mineral's powder may differ from the actual color of the mineral. This property can be useful for mineral identification.Almost every mineral has an inherent streak color, no matter what color the actual mineral is.
What is the difference between a minerals color and streak?
Color is what you observe when you look at a mineral. Streak is the color of the mineral when in a fine powder form. This can be observed by drawing a sample of the mineral over an unglazed porcelain tile and noting the color of the line left on the tile.
The color of a mineral powder is its?
The streak of the mineral is the mineral's powder color
Is streak the color of powder?
Streak refers to the color of a mineral in powder form.
What is the color of mineral's powder called?
there is no name for the color, but there is the "streak" of a mineral, meaning the color of its streak.
What a mineral streak.dot me?
Powder and color
When a minerial is ground into powder this is the color of the powder Sometimes this is powder is not the same color ad the original mineral?
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What is the powdered form of the mineral?
The powder indicates the true color of the mineral and is an aid in mineral identification. That can also be called a streak.
What is the color of the powder that a mineral leaves went is scratched across a special plate?
what is the color of the powder called that a mineral leaves when scratched across a special plate
What characteristic is used to determine the color of a mineral's powder?
The mineral is sratched on a unglazed white title the powder left is the is the color of the minerals streak which is used to find the name of the mineral and identify it.
What do you call a color of a mineral's powder found by scratching the mineral on a white tile?
The Color streak/streak.
What is the property of a mineral that shows the color of its powder?
streak.
