Science Minerals

Minerals

• A solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence.

• A rock

• A rock mixed with other components

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  a large piece of rock which has become detached from a cliff or mountain; a boulder.

Color

• The color a reflcetion of light produces

• A mirage

• The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.

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Streak

• the color of a gemstone

• the color of a rock

• The color of a mineral

• the color of a mineral's powder

Luster

• Light

• The way a mineral reflects light

• The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.

• Color of a minerals powder

Density

• d=m/V

• How many kilograms it weighs

• How many pounds it weighs

• volume

Hardness

• A measure on how easily it cracks

• A measure on how easily itforms

• A measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched

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crystal system

• is the regular arrangement of mineral molecules

• is the regular arrangement of mineral atoms

• is the regular arrangement of mineral rocks

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Cleavage

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• A mineral's ability to split easily along flat surfaces.

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

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geode

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• A type of diamond

• A special gemstone

• a hollow stone found on the earth that is lined on the inside with crystals

fracture

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• The process by which atoms are arranged to form a material with a crystal structure

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

• A mineral's ability to split easily along flat surfaces.