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Luster
The property that describes how a mineral's surface shines is called luster. Luster refers to the appearance of light reflected off a mineral's surface, and can be categorized as metallic or non-metallic.
Surface reflection is either specular or diffuse.
The appearance or quality of light that is reflected from the surface of a mineral is called luster. It describes how light interacts with the surface of a mineral, giving it characteristics such as metallic, pearly, vitreous, or silky.
The way a mineral reflects light from its surface is called luster. Luster describes how light is reflected off a mineral's surface and can be used to help identify the mineral. Minerals can have different types of luster, such as metallic, vitreous, pearly, dull, or greasy.
The appearance or quality of light reflected from the surface of a mineral is called luster. Luster describes how the surface of a mineral shines or reflects light, and it can be described as metallic, vitreous (glassy), pearly, earthy, or dull.
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The ray that represents the light reflected by a surface is called the reflected ray.
- light reflected from a window- light reflected from a mirror- light reflected from snow
This is called the luster of the mineral.The luster of a mineral is the way its surface reflects light. Most terms used to describe luster are self-explanatory: metallic, earthy, waxy, greasy, vitreous (glassy), adamantine (or brilliant, as in a faceted diamond).
Luster is the property that describes how a mineral reflects light from its surface. Minerals can have metallic, vitreous (glassy), pearly, silky, or dull luster, among others.
The property that describes how minerals interact with light is known as "luster." Luster refers to the way light reflects off a mineral's surface, and can be described as metallic, glassy, pearly, silky, dull, or earthy.