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What mineral contains oxygen and silicon is soft and shiny and separates easily into sheets?
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∙ 12y ago
Biotite is one of the mica group of silicate minerals.
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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.
How easily does bioethanol ignite?
yes because it contains ethonal and that lights really easily
What is the name of a crystalline mineral light in color or translucent and easily cleavable?
Spar
What is it about silicon that makes it a possible carbon substitute in a system?
Theoretically yes, but it is quite implausible. Silicon forms less stable structures than carbon and silicon compounds would be solid at standard conditions and would, therefore, be quite hard to use by organisms.
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
What mineral is shiny and soft and separates easily into sheets and contains oxygen and silicon?
Mica
What is the benefit of mineral makeup?
It contains more natural ingredients than other makeup which may contain many synthetic chemical ingredients. Mineral foundation also seems to not sink into pores as easily as non-mineral makeup. Mineral makeup is also usually more environmentally and animal friendly.
Why is mobile chip made of silicon?
Semiconductors are needed to create the transistors on chips. Silicone is a natural semiconductor. Silicon is quite cheap and easily obtained, made from regular sand which is silicon dioxide. Silicone can be grown into large crystals very easily.
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
Why silicon is the more semiconductor than germanium?
Silicon is more semiconductor than Germanium because the characteristics of silicon can be easily modified to obtain either a p-type or n-type material.
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
