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What is the difference between a minerals hardness and streak?
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∙ 12y ago
A minerals hardness is the ability to scratch or be scratched by other minerals and streak is the colored powder of a mineral that comes off when being scratched.
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What is Cobalts mineral streak color?
Yes. Its Mohs hardness is in the range of 5, and minerals (or metals, as is the case here) will streak up to a hardness of about 7. For a quick review of what streak is and how it originated, use the link to the Wikipedia article.
What are the seven characteristics used to identify minerals?
color streak cleavage fracture hardness transparency luster
What property is the least useful in identifying minerals?
there are a few : hardness, luster, cleavage, streak, color, and density. there are more but i don't know them off the top of my head.
Why do you need to know hardness and streak to identify minerals?
Any identifying characteristics help when you are dealing with an unknown mineral. You have to use all of the clues at your disposal to make a proper identification. Streak and hardness are 2 important tests.
How do you identify minerals I Me My We Our?
Minerals have certain properties, or characteristics, that help to identify them. Minerals can be identified by their color, luster, streak, cleavage, hardness, specific gravity, and even by their chemical composition.
What is difference between hardness and streak?
Streak is the color it makes when two minerals scratch against each other. Hardness is just how hard the mineral is
What is the difference between streak and hardness?
A minerals hardness is its relative ability to scratch or be scratched by other minerals. Diamond, for instance, can scratch all other minerals because of its hardness. Streak is the color of the mineral when powdered. This is usually accomplished by the streak test (swiping the mineral across an unglazed porcelain surface) which reveals a mineral's streak color, which may differ from the color of the specimen being tested.
What is the streak of sandstone and the hardness?
Streak and Mohs hardness are descriptive and identifying terms for minerals. Because sandstone could be composed of a multitude of different rock particles or minerals, a specific hardness or streak cannot be attributed to them.
What are 2 minerals that don't leave a streak on a streak plate?
A streak plate has hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale, so harder minerals will not leave a streak. Diamond has a hardness of 10 and corundum is 9 - so neither will leave a streak.
What sources are in minerals?
Lustre, colour, streak and hardness.
What are the property's of minerals?
hardness streak and luster and color
What are property's of minerals?
hardness streak and luster and color
What are the four properties of minerals?
hardness streak and luster and color
What are the common physical properities of minerals?
the common physical properities of minerals is hardness , streak , color
Can you name the tests that scientists use to identify minerals?
hardness and streak
What properties help you identify minerals the best?
Streak hardness and shine
4 ways to classify minerals?
Color, lustre, hardness, streak
