Mineral properties
Types of minerals
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What is luster?

How light reflects off a mineral

100

What is Feldspar?

The most abundant group of rock-forming minerals in the Earth's crust

200

What is cleavage?

A minerals ability to split easily along flat surfaces.

200

What is Quartz?

A hard, and shiny mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms.

300

what is streak?

The color of a mineral powder when it is rubbed against a tile.

300

What is mica?

Shiny flakey mineral that forms in thin layers.

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What is fracture?

The way a mineral looks when it breaks apart in an irregular way.

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What is solution?

A mixture containing a solvent and at least one solute that has the same properties throughout; a mixture in which one substance is dissolved in another.