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Q: What mineral is nonsilicate and cleaves when it breaks and has a salty taste?
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What mineral is non silicate cleaves when it breaks has a salty taste?

Perhaps Rock Salt or Halite (NaCl). ========================== The halide group of minerals like halite (table salt).


What mineral tastes salty and cleaves into three directions at 90degrees?

Calcite, a crystallized form of limestone.


What unusual property does the mineral halite have?

its salty


What is the mineral that is softer than 5 and is salty?

Fluorspar (also called Fluorite). (Note, while it is a salt it is not "salty")


A mineral that can stand by itself dissolves in liquid and tastes salty is called?

Halite (table salt) is a mineral that fits the description.


Does salty water have minerals?

NaCl, the salt you are probably referring to, is a mineral, so yes.


A mineral with a salty taste?

There are many minerals that taste salty. One example is halite, also known as rock salt. Minerals with taster are sometimes water soluble.


The taste of halite?

Halite is a mineral but also it is salt. So it tastes like salt, or salty


What can cause certain parts of the ocean to be saltier?

Mineral deposits and their occurrence makes areas of the ocean more salty.


Where does common salt come from?

It actually comes from the sea. For evidence, sea is salty and salt is a mineral so it comes from there


What is one reason table salt would be classified as a mineral?

The mineral halite (table salt) meets all the requirements for being defined as a mineral in that it is naturally occurring, a solid, has a chemical formula, has a crystalline structure, and is inorganic.


What is it called when mutations in the CFTR gene affect water and mineral transport throughout the body leading to male sterility thick mucus in the lungs and salty sweat?

It is called Pleiotropy.