Vocabulary
A structure in which particles arranged in regular geometric patterns.
What is a crystalline structure?
Atoms are all arranged in the same way.
What is crystalline structure?
The amount of matter.
What is mass?
This mineral (that starts with the letter Q)is used in glass, abrasives for sanding and grinding, polish in toothpaste, fiber optics, porcelain, casting metal parts.
What is Quartz?
This is the number of classifications on this scale.
What is 10
the color of a mineral when broken down into powder.
What is streak?
Has never been alive.
What is inorganic?
The space an object (like a rock or mineral) occupies.
What is volume?
This mineral (starting with the letter C)is used in making pipes, coins, ammunition, cooking utensils, brass/bronze items, blue pigment.
What is Copper?
This is the number of the softest on the hardness scale.
what is 1?
A break with a rough or jagged edge.
What is fracture?
Is not manufactured.
What is naturally occurring?
The mass of something divided by the volume it takes up.
What is denisty?
This mineral (starting with the letter L) is used in ceramics and glass, electrical and electronics, air conditioning absorption, rocket propellants, air purification, fireworks and flares.
What is lithium?
this is the number of the hardest on the hardness scale.
What is 10?
A measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched.
What is hardness?
Neither liquid nor gas.
What is a solid?
A flake of gold has the same density as a bar of gold.
What is a true statement illustration about density?
This mineral is most likely in a shaker on your dining table.
What is salt?
This mineral (starting with the letter T) has a 1 on this scale.
What is talc?
The way that a mineral reflects light from its surface.
What is luster?
Caused by trace elements or compounds. Some minerals hove more than one of these.
What is color?
Specific gravity is measured against the specific gravity of this liquid.
What is pure water (which is equal to 1g/ml)
This mineral is used as a standard for currency.
What is gold?
This body part has a Moh's number of 2.5 on this scale.
What is your finger nail?
How a mineral splits along planes of weakness.
What is cleavage?
This type of luster looks shiny.
What is a metallic luster?
The glass of a window that allows you to see the image on the other side of the window is characterized as this.
What is transparent?
This mineral is part of the nickname for the state of Nevada.
What is Silver?
This mineral cannot be scratched by any other mineral.
What is a diamond?
The ratio of the density of a substance to the density of water.
What is Specific Gravity?
This term is used to described what is smooth, rough, ragged, greasy, soapy, glassy.
What is texture?
This describes a mineral that does not any light pass through.
What is opaque?
This mineral is used (most of the time) as an engagement stone.
What is Diamond?
Mineral A scratches another mineral B, but cannot be scratched by mineral B. This is where they land on the hardness scale relative to each other.
How to figure out of Mineral B has a lower number on the Moh's hardness scale?
A naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a specific chemical composition and a definite crystalline structure
What is a mineral?
Minerals are made of one or more of these.
What are elements?
This characteristic of a mineral allows some light through, but images on the other side are blurry or indistinguishable.
What is translucent?
This mineral is used to make ship anchors.
What is Iron?
The more resistance to being scratched, the more you are this.
What is harder or have a higher number on the Moh's hardness scale.