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Which property is used to identify minerals uses the color of the mineral when it's broken up?
Streak is the property of a mineral that is determined by rubbing the mineral on a special plate to reveal the color of its powdered form. This can help identify minerals because a mineral's streak color is often different from its external color.
What is pitchblende or galena?
Pitchblende is a name for uraninite, a radioactive mineral from which uranium ore is extracted. The composition of pitchblende can include uranium oxide (UO2) and triuranium octoxide (U3O8), along with lead oxide and pockets of helium.Pitchblende is a radioactive, uranium-rich mineral and ore. It has a chemical composition that is largely UO2, but also contains UO3 and oxides of lead, thorium, and rare earth elements. It is known as pitchblende due to its black color and high density. It is also commonly referred to as Uraninite.
Magnetite displays which special property?
The special property that magnetite displays is that it is attracted by a magnet. Cleavage is the mineral property that explains why some minerals break along smooth, flat surfaces.
Which mineral property can be determined simply by observation?
Color is a mineral property that can be determined simply by observation.
What mineral property is the least useful property?
Luster is typically considered the least useful mineral property, as it does not provide much information about the mineral's identity or composition. Luster simply describes how light is reflected off the surface of a mineral, such as metallic, glassy, or dull, and can vary even within the same mineral species.
What is a blackish mineral that is a type of uraninite?
pitchblende
What property makes it easy to find pitchblende?
The color of pitchblende makes it easy to find it.
Which mineral is radium obtained?
pitchblende was the first, but any good uranium ore will do as it is a daughter element of uranium's decay.
Who invented the Pitchblende and when?
Pitchblende, a radioactive mineral, was first discovered by Johann Gottfried Gahn and K. A. Hauy in 1789. It was later identified as a uranium-rich mineral by Martin Heinrich Klaproth in 1789.
What special property of a mineral can be deadly?
It's Radioactivity
What is an important mineral of uranium?
Pitchblende, uraninite, carnotite, davidite, euxenite, etc.
What is a special mineral propertie?
Fracture, cleavage, luster, hardness, color ect. a property a mineral posesses.
What is the difference between a primary diagnostic and a special property of a mineral?
A primary property is one that all minerals possess, whereas a special property is found in only one or a few minerals.
What is an example of a common mineral?
Examples: hematite (Fe2O3), ilmenite (FeTiO3), pitchblende (UO2). The most common such oxide mineral is silicon dioxide in sand.
When uranium was found?
Uranium was identified as an oxide in the mineral pitchblende by Martin Heinrich Klaproth in 1789.
What do you call the special property of a mineral that allows them to glow under ultraviolet lights?
Fluoresces
Where did martin klaproth discover uranium?
In pitchblende from Joachimow (now in Czech Republic), 1789
