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What is the Color of a mineral when crushed to a powder?
Different minerals have different colors, actually.
What is the powder of a mineral called?
Streak
What is a piece of unglazed porcelain to test a mineral's streak called?
A streak plate
If a mineral doesn't make a streak is it not a mineral?
Minerals with a hardness greater than around 7 on the Mohs hardness scale will not leave a streak on a standard unglazed porcelain streak plate. They will instead scratch and powder the streak plate.
What is the streak color of the mineral silver?
silver or white
What is the streak of zircon?
White... I think.
Is zircon manmade?
Zircon is a naturally occurring mineral and gemstone.
What are zircon diamonds?
Zircon is a mineral often 'passed off' as diamond, although it is not a diamond mineral at all. Read more, below.
What is the mineral zircon used for?
Zircon is a commonly used mineral for radiometric dating.Natural zircon comes in almost all colors, like a lot of gems. There are also heat treatments to intesify colors.
How do you determine a mineral’s streak?
The color of a mineral in powdered form is called the mineral's Streak
What is Cobalts mineral streak color?
Yes. Its Mohs hardness is in the range of 5, and minerals (or metals, as is the case here) will streak up to a hardness of about 7. For a quick review of what streak is and how it originated, use the link to the Wikipedia article.
The color of a mineral powder is its?
The streak of the mineral is the mineral's powder color
What happens if you rub the mineral across a streak plate but the mineral does not leave a streak?
The lack of a streak would indicate that the mineral is harder than the streak plate, or the color of the streak is the same as the color of the streak plate.
Is blue zircon dark blue?
yes
What refers to the color left behind when a mineral's is rubbed across and unglazed porcelain plate?
Which mineral leaves a green-black powder when rubbed against an unglazed porcelain plate?
What mineral leaves a colorless streak?
The mineral Quartz leaves a colorless streak.
What is the difference between color and streak in minerals?
Color is the observable color of a mineral specimen in natural light. Streak is the color of a mineral when powdered. The color of a specific mineral specimen may be different than its streak color. Because many impurities can alter the color of a mineral, but not the streak, streak is a more accurate predictor in mineral identification.
