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If you broke a mineral into tiny pieces each piece would?
if you broke a mineral into tiny peices, what would each peice look like?
What is the difference between molecular structure and crystal structure?
The difference between atomic structures and crystal structures is that in atomic structures, atom patterns are mismatched, random, and disordered unlike crystal structures in which atoms are positioned in orderly and repeated patterns.For example to crystalline structure; BCC FCC and HCP
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.
How does forming in a restrictef space affect the structure of a crystal?
Indeed, not all crystals are perfect. Often a process called twinning occurs. On the walls of a cavity, there may be several nucleation centres, points of first formation of a crystal. As these crystals grow they will interfere in each other's space.
What is the crystal group structure of granite?
Granite does not belong to any crystal structure group because granite is a rock, not a mineral, and only minerals can be grouped by crystal form or shape. Minerals are naturally occurring solids which form the earth and make up its rocks. Minerals develop in predictable geometric patterns called crystals. The term used to describe a crystal's general shape is habit. Some examples of crystal habit groups are cubic, prismatic, tabular, etc. Minerals are sometimes called the building blocks of rocks because rocks are usually made up of 2 or more minerals which formed together in the same space, often without enough room for recognizable crystal formation. The minerals involved and the environment they formed in will determine the type of rock they make. Granite is a rock formed underground from cooled magma (lava that never reached the earth's surface) containing the minerals quartz, feldspar, mica and others. Each individual mineral in a rock belongs to a particular crystal group, but not the rock itself.
Does each piece of mineral have the same the same crystal structure?
No. Each mineral has its own structure.
Can each piece of a mineral have the same crystal structure?
no
Each piece of the mineral has the same crystal structure?
no not at all
Is the sentence true or false each piece of mineral has the same crystal structure?
that question iz absolutely trueFalse
What is the crystal structure of a sapphire?
Diamond crystals are cubic, and are based on what is called a face centered cubic structure. Each carbon atom is linked to four other carbon atoms in a cube. If you can picture a cube with its six faces, there is a carbon atom at each corner. Additionally, there is a carbon atom in the middle of each square face that is bound to each atom at the corner of the square. Links can be found below for more information.
Is true or false that the crystals in each mineral are the same shape?
Crystals of a certain mineral have a regular formation of atoms. However, crystals of the same mineral can grow differently. The presence of trace minerals, variations in heat, pressure, and the space that they have to grow in can influence the shape of a crystal. Crystalline structures demonstrate characteristic geographic variations for these reasons.
Explain why each mineral has its own properties different from every other mineral?
Because they each are made of different elements and therefore have different chemical compositions.
What characterizes each type of mineral crystal?
A specific geometric arrangement of atoms.
Why are minerals considered to be crystalline?
Minerals are by definition occurring in nature, solid, having a specific chemical formula, and having a crystalline structure. When minerals form from a gaseous or liquid state of matter into a solid, their combinations of atoms arrange themselves into a crystalline structure, for example, a quart crystal. These crystalline structures are divided into six or seven (depending on what article you read) crystal systems by length and relationships between the crystal axes.
Is petrol and coal a mineral?
Both diamond and coal are formed from the mineral carbon, each with a different molecular structure.
Each mineral has a unique crystal shape because of the -?
Arangement of it's atoms.
How does the atomic arrangement of atoms lead to its crystal like structure?
That's different for each crystal. A crystal is defined by the way the atoms are arranged in it's structure, so this question is not really answerable for all crystalline structures.
