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It's the first property people often notice about a mineral
What is color?
This describes how a mineral reflects or absorbs light.
What is Luster?
A mineral's resistance to being scratched
What is hardness?
A mineral that breaks along smooth, flat surfaces.
What is cleavage?
Mass /Volume
What is density?
It's the reason color is not always the best way to identify a mineral.
What is the reason many minerals share the same color OR impurities can change the color
Metallic, non-metallic
What are two types of luster?
This scale is used to measure hardness.
The Mohs hardness scale.
This mineral would show cleavage.
What is calcite?
This mineral property will cause it to glow under UV light.
What is florescence?
The color of a mineral in powdered form
What is streak?
This is how you would describe the luster of quartz.
What is vitreous?
Talc is described as this.
The softest mineral on the Mohs hardness scale.
A mineral that breaks into uneven or rough surfaces.
What is fracture?
This mineral is the smelliest mineral we have studied.
What is sulfur?
It does not change due to impurities, thus this statement is true.
What is why streak is more reliable than color?
This is the opposite of a vitreous luster.
Shine like a diamond!
What is the hardest mineral on the Mohs Hardness Scale
A very thin mineral that breaks off in sheets, showing fracture.
What is Muscovite Mica?
this can make some minerals attract metal objects
What is magnetism?
This tool is used to test streak.
What is a streak plate?
This type of luster looks shiny like metal.
What is metallic?
What minerals are harder than 5.5?
This structure determines how a mineral will break
What is atomic structure?
This is what we call a mineral which is mined for profit
What is an ore?