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What characteristic is used to determine the color of a mineral's powder?
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The mineral is sratched on a unglazed white title the powder left is the is the color of the minerals streak which is used to find the name of the mineral and identify it.
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What minerals determine the color of granite?
The color and type of feldspar minerals largely determine the color of a particular granite.
What is the least useful characteristic in identifying minerals?
color
Minerals that determine the color of the granite?
These minerals are quartz, feldspar, mica, and usually hornblende.
What is the color of a minerals powder called?
there is no name for the color, but there is the "streak" of a mineral, meaning the color of its streak.
The color of a minerals powder is its what?
The color of a mineral in powdered form is called the streak color.
What minerals determine the color of granite?
The color and type of feldspar minerals largely determine the color of a particular granite.
What property is used to identify minerals uses the color of the mineral when it's broken up?
StreakColor of the mineral when it is powdered.Grind a small amount of a mineral into a powder on a porcelain streak plate and determine the color of the powder.
What is the least useful characteristic in identifying minerals?
color
What refers to the color of powder scraped off a mineral when it is rubbed against a hard rough surface?
The color of the powder left on the rough surface by a mineral is called its streak. The streak plate is a hard surface that helps to determine the different shades and characteristics of the minerals that is rubbed on it.
Color of powered mineral?
It's referred to as the streak, the color of which is used as an identifying characteristic of minerals.
Minerals that determine the color of the granite?
These minerals are quartz, feldspar, mica, and usually hornblende.
What is the color of a minerals powder called?
there is no name for the color, but there is the "streak" of a mineral, meaning the color of its streak.
What is the color of a mineral in powder form?
It's called the minerals streak
What is the difference between a minerals color and streak?
Color is what you observe when you look at a mineral. Streak is the color of the mineral when in a fine powder form. This can be observed by drawing a sample of the mineral over an unglazed porcelain tile and noting the color of the line left on the tile.
The color of the powder inside a mineral?
1. Minerals don't (or at least don't usually) have "powders" inside them. They can BE powdered, but they don't generally contain powder.2. The color of a powdered mineral is usually at least somewhat like its color before being powdered (though generally of a more pastel shade).3. The color of a mineral depends on what it is; specifically, many minerals get their characteristic colors from transition metal ions, and the color of a transition metal ion depends on a) what transition metal and b) what its oxidation state is.
What determines the color of the granite?
The color and type of feldspar minerals largely determine the color of a particular granite.
Why is the color or a mineral not a reliabe physical characteristic?
The same mineral can come in a variety of colors and different minerals can be the same color.
