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Which of the following in not a main characteristic of a mineral?
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What is the most unreliable characteristic of a mineral?
Color, due to the effects of impurities, is the least reliable identifying mineral characteristic.
A mineral is a natural solid that usually is?
In organic, with characteristic physical properties
What characteristic is used to determine the color of a mineral's powder?
The mineral is sratched on a unglazed white title the powder left is the is the color of the minerals streak which is used to find the name of the mineral and identify it.
Light reflecting and transmission characteristics of a mineral?
The characteristic of a mineral that reflects light is called luster. Diaphaneity or transparency is the characteristics that allow the transmission of light.
What mineral forms glass?
The mineral quartz is the main ingredient in manufactured glass.
Which of the followimg is not a main characteristic of a mineral?
Man-made
What is a characteristic property of the mineral pyrite?
The characteristic property of the mineral pyrite is sand it is very shiny
What is the most unreliable characteristic of a mineral?
Color, due to the effects of impurities, is the least reliable identifying mineral characteristic.
What characteristic of a mineral?
rough, sharp
What is the characteristic of a mineral that is revealed by testing what substances can scratch it and what the mineral can scratch?
it is hardness
Which mineral is an ore of iron and has a characteristic of reddish brown streak?
The mineral is hematite.
What is an accessory mineral?
An accessory mineral is a mineral present in small amounts in a rock, but not considered to be characteristic of the rock.
Which is characteristic of a mineral?
It must be naturally occurring and crystalline.
A sometimes misleading characteristic when identifying a mineral?
color
Which of the followings is not a characteristic of a mineral?
man-made {apex}
Which is not a characteristic common to all mineral?
metallic luster
Which is not an essential characteristic of any mineral?
It's wind.
