Don't you mean: "Is sodium lustrous?" And yes, it is. Lustre is how shiny a substance is. Don't you mean: "Is sodium lustrous?" And yes, it is. Lustre is how shiny a substance is.
Sodium is not a property of anything. It is a metal with its own properties.
Diamonds do not have a metallic luster; diamond luster is adamantine to waxy.
Calcite typically exhibits a vitreous or glassy luster.
Like quartz it has a glassy luster
Graphite is black and posseses dull appearance
Asking if something "has luster" is about the same as asking if it "has appearance". EVERYTHING has a luster, the question is "what kind?" For halite, most people would describe it as a glassy or vitreous luster.
The luster of rock salt is Vitreous (glassy)
Pure sodium chloride crystals are transparent.
That is a physical property. The metallic silver luster is a characteristic of the way light interacts with the surface of the sodium metal, rather than a result of a chemical reaction.
Sodium is not a property of anything. It is a metal with its own properties.
At room temperature, sodium metal is so soft that it can be easily cut with a knife. In air, the bright silvery luster of freshly exposed sodium will rapidly tarnish. The density of alkali metals generally increases with increasing atomic number, but sodium is denser than potassium. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium#Characteristics
Diamonds do not have a metallic luster; diamond luster is adamantine to waxy.
the answer is luster/
All minerals have luster. There are different types of luster. Pyrite has metallic luster.
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