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The least effective property used to identify most minerals would be the color. The color of a mineral can be altered by impurities.
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Which mineral property is the least reliable for identifying a mineral?
the color is the least reliable source!
What mineral properties cannot be used to identify a mineral?
The color, luster, and crystal shape of a mineral may be observed just by looking at the mineral. Some minerals have very distinctive colors that help identify them. Although the color of a mineral can give away its identity, color is the least useful property for mineral identification.
What is the most useful physical property when classifying a rock?
Its mineral composition.
What is the least reliable mineral identification property?
Color.
What two properties are least useful in identifying a mineral?
Color and streak would be the least useful, because they may be shared by a multitude of other minerals.
What property is generally least useful in identifying minerals?
Density is the least useful property for identification because different specimens of the same type of mineral can vary in size. -Color is the least useful property for identification because it is the most obvious property.
Which propety is generally the least useful when identifying minerals?
The color of a mineral is the least useful when identifying minerals. A mineral can exist in various colors. This is because presence of certain chemicals will change the color of the mineral. Weathering can also change the color of the mineral. Therefore color is not a good property to identify minerals.
What property is the least useful for identifying minerals?
All properties are useful there is no one property that is "least useful".
Which mineral property is the least reliable for identifying a mineral?
the color is the least reliable source!
What mineral properties cannot be used to identify a mineral?
The color, luster, and crystal shape of a mineral may be observed just by looking at the mineral. Some minerals have very distinctive colors that help identify them. Although the color of a mineral can give away its identity, color is the least useful property for mineral identification.
What is the most useful physical property when classifying a rock?
Its mineral composition.
What is the least reliable mineral identification property?
Color.
Is color a useful property when trying to identify a mineral?
no, because the same mineral can be more than one color.
How do you determine the streak of a mineral and why is streak a useful property?
you see and feel how shiney it is
Which property would be most useful in identifying the unknown rock?
mineral content
What is the least reliable property to use to identify a mineral?
color!!
What is the least reliable physical property for mineral identification?
Color
