What is a Mineral?
The metal Johannes Gutenberg used to construct a printing press.
What is copper?
He developed a scale to help determine the hardness of minerals.
Who is Friedrich Mohs?
To distort or twist something good into something wicked
What is corrupt?
Metallic to dull characteristics
What is luster?
This protects us from Satan's attacks
The five things that indicate something is not a mineral.
What are organic, a fossil, commonly a liquid, a gas, and a rock?
The balance of opposite sides of an object in regard to size and form.
What is symmetry?
If all 50 million known chemicals were able to do this as geometrically regular solids, they would all fall into the six crystal systems.
What is crystallize?
Mohs' scale measures this from 1 (soft) to 10 (hard).
What is hardness?
A gem that becomes more valuable as it goes from pale to dark green.
What is an emerald?
Two terms we should be aware of and why.
What are naturally occurring and Mother Earth because they may write God completely out of the picture?
The part of geology that deals with the science of minerals.
What is mineralogy?
These crystals are difficult to explain from an evolutionary viewpoint.
What are large crystals, many feet in diameter?
Scraping a mineral and examining this powder.
What is streak?
The biblical island that was known for its copper mining 1000 years before Christ.
What is Cyprus?
The first two foundations to define a mineral.
What is a special group of compounds created by God and a fixed chemistry?
One who studies the rocks and minerals of earth, including how they formed.
Who is a geologist?
It appears like broken glass.
What is vitreous?
Compares a mineral's weight to that of an equal volume of water.
What is specific gravity?
Four of the minerals mentioned in Ezekiel 28:2-13, 17.
What are sardius, topaz, diamond, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphire, emerald, carbuncle, and gold? (any four listed here.)
The third, fourth, and fifth foundations to define a mineral.
What are a crystalline structure, inorganic, and exist as a solid form of matter?
A reconciling or repairing of a relationship, as done by Christ in His sacrifice so we could stand forgiven before God.
What is atonement?
Related to the weight or heaviness of an object, or testing the weight by lifting it
What is heft?
Cubic, tetragonal, orthorhombic, hexagonal, monoclinic, or triclinic.
What is crystal symmetry?
The 3 colors and gemstone types of beryl.
What are pale blue as aquamarine, yellow as heliodor, and pink as morganite?