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What is the name of a crystalline mineral light in color or translucent and easily cleavable?
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Measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched which is determined b the arrangement of of a minerals atom?
Hardness is the measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched.
What are the five properties of Illite?
Illite is a clay mineral that typically has a fine-grained texture. It has a pale color, usually ranging from white to light gray, but can also be yellow or greenish. Illite has a layered structure with a sheet-like appearance, composed of individual crystalline plates. It exhibits a relatively low plasticity, meaning it does not easily mold or deform. Illite is known to have good water-holding capacity, making it useful for retaining moisture in soil.
What mineral can be easily identified by it's color?
Obsidian because it's the only mineral that is the blackest of well......black! Anyway it's black I mean Obsidian (\_/) (o.o) (___)o
Is a shadow translucent?
The shadow is not a solid 'black' colour. It can be the same colour as the object and the shadow allows you to see through it more than an opaque objects shadow. An opaque object would block the light but a translucent object would give a shadow that you could quite easily see through
Which minerals dissolve in water?
Rock salt is a mineral that is easily soluble in room temperature water.
What is the general name for non-metallic crystalline minerals that are light in color or translucent and easily cleavable?
They are called 'spar'.
Difference between schistose foliation and gneiss-to foliation?
A schistose foliation would be found in a metamorphic rock with a large amount of micaceous minerals, creating a flaky texturing with easily cleavable layers. Gneiss is more coarse in texture, not as easily cleavable along planes, and contains less micaceous minerals.
What things are crystalline and brittle?
Both crystalline and brittle mean to break easily - fine china, thin glass, etc.
What is ment by a meant by a mineral's hardness?
Hardness is the measure of how easily a mineral is scratched.
A mineral that can be scratched easily by all other minerals is?
Talc is the softest mineral and can be scratched by any other mineral.
What is a measure of easily a mineral can be scratched?
hardness
A measure of how easily a mineral is scratched?
hardness
Hardness is a measure of how easily a mineral can be located?
no
What are the differences between colloidal precipitate and crystalline precipitate?
Crystalline precipitates have less surface area than the colloidal precipitates, therefore they are more pure. Additionally, crystalline precipitates, because they are larger, are more easily separated from the surrounding solution.
What is total hardness?
hardness is how easily a mineral can be scratched
The measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched?
The term for this is "hardness".
What mineral breaks easily into cubes?
Galena, i thinx
