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What is the property that causes some minerals to break along smooth flat surfaces?
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This property is called cleavage.
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Tendency to break along smooth flat surfaces?
Many minerals have "cleavage" that causes them to split on flat cleavage planes. Such minerals include micas (muscovite, biotite. phlogopite), calcite, gypsum, and feldspars. Cleavage is the result of the minerals' crystal structure that has weaker chemical bonds aligned in planes.
Why does some friction occur with seemingly smoth surfaces?
Some friction will occur with seemingly smooth surfaces because at a molecular level, nothing is smooth.
Common mineral that breaks along smooth flat surface?
cleavage, if a natural property of the mineral (e.g. mica); or a fault, such as in a gemstone.
What is splitting into pieces with smooth regular surfaces that reflect light?
Cleavage
What surfaces will glue with Super Glue?
Any smooth, hard surface can be glued by Super Glue.
What causes some minerals to break along smootH surfaces?
Cleavage
What causes minerals to break along smooth flat surfaces?
Cleavage
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.
The tendency of minerals to break along smooth flat surfaces is called .?
cleavage
What causes friction between two seemingly smooth surfaces?
Tiny collisions on the surfaces, called microwelds, cause friction.
Tendency to break along smooth flat surfaces?
Many minerals have "cleavage" that causes them to split on flat cleavage planes. Such minerals include micas (muscovite, biotite. phlogopite), calcite, gypsum, and feldspars. Cleavage is the result of the minerals' crystal structure that has weaker chemical bonds aligned in planes.
The mineral family that includes the most common and most abundant minerals smooth cleavage surfaces aid in identification?
The most common mineral group contains silicate minerals.
Think critically what does the presence of cleavage planes within a mineral tell you about the chemical bonds that hold the mineral together?
It tells you that that mineral is smooth and flat ,and so are the chemical bonds. Because if it didn't it would be a fracture which means it is jagged and not smooth. I am sure of this answer because cleavage means physical property of some minerals that cause them to break along smooth, flat surfaces.
When quartz breaks it breaks along smooth curved surfaces resembling broken glass What is this property called?
conchoidal fracture
Why does light reflect better off of smooth surfaces than rough surfaces?
smooth surface
The mineral family that includes the most common and most abundant minerals smooth cleavage surfaces aid in identification hematite Kaolinite Kaolin?
Feldspar
What type of surfaces have little friction?
smooth surfaces
