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What is the difference between color and streak in minerals?
Color is the observable color of a mineral specimen in natural light. Streak is the color of a mineral when powdered. The color of a specific mineral specimen may be different than its streak color. Because many impurities can alter the color of a mineral, but not the streak, streak is a more accurate predictor in mineral identification.
What affects color of minerals?
The answer is: small amounts of different elements
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.
How reliable is color when determining what a mineral is?
Color is the least reliable of a mineral's characteristics used in its identification.
What mineral gives arkose a pinkish color?
The mineral that gives arkose a pinkish color is reddish sandstones.
What factors can change the color of a mineral?
Air, water, and impurities can change the color of a mineral.
What can change the color of mineral?
Besides air and water, there are several things that can change the color of a mineral. Impurities, age, the sun, heat, and pressure can change the color of a mineral.
What factor can change a color of minerals?
Air, water, and impurities can change the color of a mineral.
Air and water can change the color of a mineral. What other factor can change it's color?
impurities can
Which propety is generally the least useful when identifying minerals?
The color of a mineral is the least useful when identifying minerals. A mineral can exist in various colors. This is because presence of certain chemicals will change the color of the mineral. Weathering can also change the color of the mineral. Therefore color is not a good property to identify minerals.
Why is color the best way to identify a mineral?
Color alone is not the best way to identify a mineral because many minerals have the same color or more than one color. Mineral color can be highly variable and it can change depending on surroundings.
Why color is not the best way to identify a mineral?
Color alone is not the best way to identify a mineral because many minerals have the same color or more than one color. Mineral color can be highly variable and it can change depending on surroundings.
Why cant color be used to identify minerals?
Color can change in a mineral when in certain temperatures
True or false color is the best way to identify a mineral?
FALSE!! You identify the mineral by its streak because the color can change and its appearance can also change when in contact with or interacted with water air or other impurities!
Can minerals change into other colors?
Mineral change color because of heat, light, or radiation
What other factor beside air and water can change the color of mineral?
fire?
Why is it hard to tell what a mineral is just by color?
it is not a good idea to identify a rock or mineral by it's color because the color of the rock can change and when looking at facts on that rock/mineral it may not say the color that you have. that is why there are other ways as well as color. but don't get me wrong because some things can be identified by the color so it really depends.
