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| How many known minerals are there? |
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| What is the study of minerals and their properties? |
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| What's the first and most easily observed property? |
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| Some minerals ______ ______ when _________ __ ____. |
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| change, color, exposed, to, air |
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What's cinnabar of? Color?
What's Malachite of? Color? |
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One of mercury - red.
One of copper - green. |
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| The way that minerals shine in reflected light. |
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| What's an example of a nonmetal? |
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| What are the other words to describe a nonmetal? |
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| Greasy, pearly, earthy, glassy,waxy, oily, dull. |
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| Metallic luster shines like __________ ______. |
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| When ions arrange themselves in patterns. |
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| The color of a mineral when run across a streak plate. |
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| What's an example of brass-yellow? greenish-black? |
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| What's a mineral's tendency to split easily or to separate along flat surfaces? |
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| What are the two types of fractures? |
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| What's hardness? Example of hardest/softest? |
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| The resistance to being scratched. Diamond/Talc. |
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| The state of glowing under ultra-violet light. |
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| Gives off subatomic particles. |
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| What's calcite an example of? |
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