Hematite.
Peat is usually brown to black with visible plant matter and a damp, earthy, crumbly texture.
A mineral's ability to reflect light is called its luster. The different terms that describe luster are earthy, metallic, greasy and silky.
"Earthy" can be taken in different contexts, depending on who it is directed at. In general however, an "earthy" person usually refers to someone who is conscious of the environment and has a laid back personality.
Brown; ochre - red or yellow - even black can be an earthy colour. Look at the soil in a garden and see the multitude of colours there.
Luster refers to the appearance of reflected light by a mineral crystal. Luster is categorized as metallic or non-metallic. Metallic luster is highly reflective, like chrome. Non-metallic is further divided by names such as dull, glassy, adamantine, waxy, silky, pearly, and greasy.
This sounds like hematite which may have a metallic luster.
Yes! It is a group of several earthy mineral oxides of iron occurring in yellow, red, brown... ,common use, for pigments.
dull to earthy
Earthy shiney waxy mattalic and pearly are terms used to describe a mineral's surface.
Peat is usually brown to black with visible plant matter and a damp, earthy, crumbly texture.
gold
Luster is: "The reflection of light from the surface of a mineral, described by its quality and intensity; the appearance of a mineral in reflected light." Common descriptive words would be glassy, dull, earthy, waxy, vitreous, metallic, etc...
Metallic gray to earthy red tones. Hope This Helped
Hard, solid, mineral, earthy.
Some words that describe dirt or soil are: earthy, gritty, fertile, and muddy.
Bays and chestnuts and other earthy colors, simply because they lived in the wild for thousands of years, and they needed earthy tones to match their surroundings.
Minerals can be identified by such as their color, streak, luster, and their hardness. What does streak, and luster mean?Streak-- Is the color of a mineral's powder for example: talc is a mineral and it is also powder and its streak is white.Luster-- Is the way a mineral reflects light from it's surface for example: glassy, pearly, silky, metallic and earthy can be words to describe luster.