Taste can give you a very good indicator but it should not necessarily be the first (some are poisonous) or final test of a mineral. See the link for a list of common minerals and how they taste.
False, Geologists identified about 3,800 minerals.
Some minerals can have taste characteristics such as salty or bitter taste.
Halite can be identified by its distinctive salty taste.
Minerals are identified based on their physical properties, such as color, hardness, luster, cleavage, and streak. Additionally, chemical tests, such as acid reactions or specific gravity measurements, can also be used to help identify minerals.
There are 2.484 minerals approved by the International Mineralogical Association.
taste, flouresent light, radiation detection, streek, and something elseI only can come up with four :( :( :( :(
False, Geologists identified about 3,800 minerals.
Some minerals can have taste characteristics such as salty or bitter taste.
Very Easily.
hardness,
no
Pure water is tasteless because it lacks the presence of any discernible flavor compounds. It is composed of just two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, which do not have any taste on their own. Any taste in water usually comes from impurities or minerals dissolved in it.
False [dickies]
4,000
no, because many of the same minerals have the same color
Halite can be identified by its distinctive salty taste.
false. they have identified many more than 300.