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How does the cleavage of feldspar differ from the cleavage of mica?
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Biotite (black mica) and muscovite (white mica) are both minerals that have perfect basal cleavage--one direction. It cleaves into thin sheets.
Feldspars (albite, oligoclase, andesine, labradorite, bytownite, anorthite) have good cleavage in two directions at nearly right angles, poor in a third direction.
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What is the name of a mineral that splits along flat surfaces?
cleavage
Which is the most abundant feldspar mica quartz calcite?
Feldspar is the most abundant mineral in the earth crust.
What mineral is flat with flaky cleavage?
Mica.
Name three examples of silicates?
quarts, feldspar and mica
What minerals occur in granite?
Granite is composed of feldspar, quartz, biotite and muscovite mica. It has a high amount of silica. Granite is an igneous rock.
How does the cleAvage of graphite differ from that of mica?
Cleavage refers to the tendency of a mineral to break along flat surfaces. Graphite and mica have the same type of cleavage, which is a perfect basal cleavage.
Does feldspar have cleavage?
It has both cleavage and fracture.
Step like cleavage is a property of what mineral?
feldspar
Is a cleavage a property of a mineral?
feldspar
Granite is made up of the minerals feldspar and mica?
granite is made up of the minerls feldspar and mica
Fieldspar amd mica are examples of mineral?
Both feldspar and mica are silicates.
How does the mica mineral break?
Mica has perfect basal cleavage.
What common mineral breaks with cleavage?
Feldspar.
What is the name of a mineral that splits along flat surfaces?
cleavage
Which is the most abundant feldspar mica quartz calcite?
Feldspar is the most abundant mineral in the earth crust.
What mineral is flat with flaky cleavage?
Mica.
Which mineral has a hardness of 6 and has cleavage?
Orthoclase Feldspar.
