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because they form on rocks so they take over as in, grow inside causing them to look like bunches
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What determines a mineral's shape?
yes. each minerals atoms are arranged in a very specific order.
What do symmerical crystal shapes indicate about a mineral?
what ddoes the crystals shape look like
What do crystal shapes have to do with minerals?
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.
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 kind of faces are found in mineral crystals?
Mineral crystal faces of varying luster and geometric shapes.
What geometrical shapes do crystals form?
Crystals form in the shapes of hexagons or six-sided prisms.
What geometrical shapes show how crystals form?
Crystals form in the shapes of hexagons or six-sided prisms.
What determines a mineral's shape?
yes. each minerals atoms are arranged in a very specific order.
Do crystals have the same shapes?
Crystals of the same substance form a similar structure in nature, but there are many basic crystaline structures in different substances
What are the shapes of minerals made by their atoms are arrange?
The shapes are called crystals.
Minerals form geometric shapes called?
Crystals.
What are the geometric shapes in minerals called?
I believe they are called crystals.
What shapes are salt crystals?
Salt Crystals can come in many forms, one such is a cubical formation.
What are the names of the six main crystals shapes?
the six main crystals are: cubic hexagonal orthcrhombic(?) monoclinic, tetragonal trilinic
Why the pyrite stone is cube shapes?
Yes, pyrite does form cubic crystals. Pyrite can form different types of crystals, including, cuboid crystals, raspberry-like framboids, T-shaped crystals, and dodecahedral crystals.
Scientists examine the shapes of very small crystals using infrared images?
Scientists use infrared images to examine small crystals.
Where does crystals occur?
Crystallization occurs in the formation of snowflakes.
