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Details Title: Identifying Minerals Description: Chapter 4 Total Flash Cards: 19 Created: 11/30/2003 18:10:26	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term How many known minerals are there? Definition Over 2,000 Term What is the study of minerals and their properties? Definition Mineralogy Term What's the first and most easily observed property? Definition Color Term Some minerals ______ ______ when _________ __ ____. Definition change, color, exposed, to, air Term What's cinnabar of? Color? What's Malachite of? Color? Definition One of mercury - red. One of copper - green. Term What's luster? Definition The way that minerals shine in reflected light. Term What's an example of a nonmetal? Definition Mica, Zinc, Adamantine Term What are the other words to describe a nonmetal? Definition Greasy, pearly, earthy, glassy,waxy, oily, dull. Term Metallic luster shines like __________ ______. Definition polished, metal Term What is crystal shape? Definition When ions arrange themselves in patterns. Term What is streak? Definition The color of a mineral when run across a streak plate. Term What's an example of brass-yellow? greenish-black? Definition Gold/Iron pyrite Term What's a mineral's tendency to split easily or to separate along flat surfaces? Definition Cleavage. Term What are the two types of fractures? Definition Conchroidal and Fibrous. Term What's hardness? Example of hardest/softest? Definition The resistance to being scratched. Diamond/Talc. Term What's rock salt? Definition Halite. Term What's flourescence? Definition The state of glowing under ultra-violet light. Term Radioactive does what? Definition Gives off subatomic particles. Term What's calcite an example of? Definition Double refraction.