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Why can't a streak test be done on a mineral whose hardness is greater than 7?
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Because the mineral is harder than the ceramic streak plate.
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Which is an example if a mineral whose streak cannot be determined with a porcelin streak plate?
Hematite, gold, feldspar or magnetite
What is a mineral whose common name is salt?
Halite
A rock whose mineral grains are not formed in bands is called?
Rock
Who are senior citizen according to India?
Anyone whose age is greater than 60 years
A strontium sulfate whose name means Celestial?
Strontium Sulfate is the sulfate salt of Strontium. It is a white, odorless crystaline substance powder and occurs in nature as the mineral Celestine. So your answer is Celestine.
How do you determine the streak of a mineral whose Mohs scale is higher than the streak plate?
You can determine the streak of a mineral whose Mohs scale is higher than the streak plate by either filing or crushing with a hammer before rubbing the sample on a streak plate.
Which is an example if a mineral whose streak cannot be determined with a porcelin streak plate?
Hematite, gold, feldspar or magnetite
How can you find hardness of a mineral?
Try scratching it with a variety of other objects (fingernail, steel nail, glass) whose hardness is known. Refer to the Mohs Hardness scale for more info on the hardness of specific materials
Scientists use this to determine a minerals resistance to being scratched?
A mineral's resistance to being scratched is known as it's hardness. You can determine hardness by scratching it with another material whose hardness is already known. If it can be scratched, then the hardness is lower. If the unknown leaves a scratch on the known material, then its hardness is higher.
What was friedrich mohs contribution in helping us to identify minerals?
Mohs introduced the scale of mineral hardness - Mohs scale - named for him. Ten minerals whose hardness is known are ordered on a scale ranging from 1 (http://www.answers.com/topic/talc?initiator=WANSalc) to 10 (diamond),
Definition of nonsilicate mineral?
A mineral that does not contain the silica tetrahedron is a non-silicate mineral.
What is a mineral whose common name is salt?
Halite
0.86 or 0.96 whose greater?
0.96 is greater than 0.86
What family is Topaz in?
It is a silicate mineral whose crystals are orthorhombic.
A rock whose mineral grains are not formed in bands is called?
Rock
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An angle whose measure is less than 180 but greater than 90?
An angle whose measure greater than 90 but less than 180 is an obtuse angle.
