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Why do you need to know hardness and streak to identify minerals?
Any identifying characteristics help when you are dealing with an unknown mineral. You have to use all of the clues at your disposal to make a proper identification. Streak and hardness are 2 important tests.
Which minerals on the Mohs scale will not leave a streak on the streak plate?
Topaz (8), corundum (9), and diamond (10).
What is the difference in streak between gold and Fool's Gold?
Gold will have a gold metallic streak, and Fool's Gold (pyrite) will have a greenish black 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.
Can all minerals produce a streak on a porcelain plate?
Those minerals that are harder than the unglazed porcelain streak plate will scratch it rather than leave a streak.
What is difference between hardness and streak?
Hardness is a mineral's resistance to being scratched, while streak is the color of the powder a mineral leaves behind when scratched on a porcelain streak plate. Hardness is measured on the Mohs scale from 1 (softest) to 10 (hardest), while streak is a diagnostic property used to identify minerals.
What are 2 minerals that don't leave a streak on a streak plate?
Two minerals that do not leave a streak on a streak plate are quartz and fluorite. Both minerals have a hardness higher than that of the streak plate, so they will not leave a streak when rubbed against it.
What are property's of minerals?
hardness streak and luster and color
What are the property's of minerals?
hardness streak and luster and color
What sources are in minerals?
Lustre, colour, streak and hardness.
What is the difference between streak and hardness?
A minerals hardness is its relative ability to scratch or be scratched by other minerals. Diamond, for instance, can scratch all other minerals because of its hardness. Streak is the color of the mineral when powdered. This is usually accomplished by the streak test (swiping the mineral across an unglazed porcelain surface) which reveals a mineral's streak color, which may differ from the color of the specimen being tested.
Why do you need to know hardness and streak to identify minerals?
Any identifying characteristics help when you are dealing with an unknown mineral. You have to use all of the clues at your disposal to make a proper identification. Streak and hardness are 2 important tests.
Can you name the tests that scientists use to identify minerals?
hardness and streak
What properties help you identify minerals the best?
Streak hardness and shine
What are two tests scientists use to identify minerals?
hardness and streak
4 ways to classify minerals?
Color, lustre, hardness, streak
What are the common physical properities of minerals?
the common physical properities of minerals is hardness , streak , color
