Vocabulary
What is a organic crystalline substance found naturally in the earth.
What is a mineral?
It is the strongest bond. And it is found in diamond?
What is a covalent bond?
What scale do we us to identify minerals?
What is the Mohs scale?
What type of bond does a ruby have?
What is a ionic bond?
What is the most abundant element in the earth?
What is oxygen?
What is the identification and classification of minerals?
What is mineralogy?
What is the second strongest bond. It is found in salt?
What is an ionic bond?
What identification process involves the tarnish of a mineral?
What is surface color?
Ice is a mineral.
What is true?
What is the most abundant mineral on earth?
What is Bridgmanite ?
What is the smallest group of minerals?
What is native elements?
It is the weakest bond it is found in gold.
What is a metallic bond?
What identification process involves the way light is reflected from the surface of a mineral?
What is luster?
Iron is a hard substance in the earth. Is it a mineral?
What is no?
What are Minerals contain the carbonate ion are called?
What are carbonates?
True or False: Are all inorganic crystalline substances found naturally in the earth.
What is true?
What identification process involves taking a mineral and scratching on a surface.
What is Streak test.
The most common carbonate mineral is what.
What is calcite?
The tendency of a mineral to break readily along certain flat surfaces producing fragments with the same shape as the parent mineral is called what?
What is the weakest bond?
What mineral has a resinous or waxy texture?
What is Sphalerite?
If Carbon atoms are placed under considerable heat and pressure, however,, they will link together in what kind of structure to form a diamond.
What is a tetrahedral structure?