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Minerals owe their colors to the elements that comprise them, or from impurities that make their way into the crystal lattice. Occasionally their color is derived from the effects of proximity to radioactive elements.
Crystals are divided into six different classes. Every mineral will form crystals that occur in one of these six classes. The geometric shapes that comprise these different classes of crystals occur because of the preferred arrangement of atoms within the lattice framework of any particular mineral crystal.
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∙ 15y agoThey have different developing sites. Restricted, open, magma, and minerals from solution.
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∙ 12y agoThe shape of a crystal is determined by the molecular makeup of the mineral.
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What determines a mineral's shape?
yes. each minerals atoms are arranged in a very specific order.
What causes different crystal shapes?
Crystals are made from molten magma that cools causing silicate minerals to crystallize. The different crystal shapes form differently as the magma cools at different rates.
What crystal makes a rock?
In geology, crystals are the geometric shapes into which minerals form. The crystals can be described in terms of axes, angles, and faces, unlike tree bark.
What minerals make up a crystal?
By definition, all minerals form crystals. So a crystal can be any mineral.
How does a mineral gets its crystal shape?
minerals get its crystal shape by the heating and pressure from rock
Why is there such a variety of crystal shapes?
because the minerals have a lot of names.
Why do minerals have crystal shapes?
They have different developing sites. Restricted, open, magma, and minerals from solution.
What determines a mineral's shape?
yes. each minerals atoms are arranged in a very specific order.
What term refers to the regular geometric shapes that occur in many minerals?
crystal habbit
Why do Crystal have different shapes?
They have different developing sites. Restricted, open, magma, and minerals from solution.
What causes different crystal shapes?
Crystals are made from molten magma that cools causing silicate minerals to crystallize. The different crystal shapes form differently as the magma cools at different rates.
How do geologists use different types of crystal shapes to classify minerals?
Minerals are classified by their geometry into six different mineral crystal systems. Each crystal system has its own set of parameters based on relationships between length and angles between a crystals axes.
What are the shapes of minerals?
There is no specific answer, there is many types of shapes to minerals, except for the circle/sphere.
What are the names of the six main kinds of crystal shapes?
What are the names of the six main kinds of crystal shapes
Which minerals have a crystal shape?
All minerals can be classified into one of a variety of crystal systems.
What crystal makes a rock?
In geology, crystals are the geometric shapes into which minerals form. The crystals can be described in terms of axes, angles, and faces, unlike tree bark.
Are minerals in different shapes?
even shapes diffrent area
