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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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| the process of heating a metal ore for the purpose of extracting or removing the metals |
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| minerals that are rare, beautiful and durable. |
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| minerals in which usable amounts of metals or nonmetals can be removed |
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| breakage that leaves an uneven, curved, or splintery surface |
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| breakage along a flat surface or plane |
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| how a mineral would break apart into pieces |
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| the density of a mineral compared to the density of water. In other words, it tells us how many times heavier a certain volume of a mineral is than the same volume of water at 4 dregrees C. |
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| the amount of mass that is packed into a specific amount of volume. Mass per unit of volume. |
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| the mineralogist that developed the hardness scale in the early 1800’s. |
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| the ability of a mineral to resist being scratched. Ranges from 1 (soft) to 10 (hard). |
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| the easiest property to observe, but not necessarily the best one to identify minerals from. |
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| the purest know substance that is made from only one kind of atom. |
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| Hot molten rock that has exited the interior of the earth and is now on the surface on the earth. |
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| Hot molten rock located deep inside the earth. |
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| something that was never alive and never will be |
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| an inorganic solid that has a definate chemical formula and crystal shape |
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| 5 characteristics of minerals |
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| 1. must occur naturally 2. contains no carbon 3. solid 4. pure or mixed 5. atoms arranged in a pattern forming a crystal |
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| flat sides, sharp edges, corners |
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| slow and fast cooling of magma |
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| elements that make up 75% of earth's crust |
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| number of minerals formed by the 8 most abundant elements |
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| how are minerals identified |
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| color, luster, hardness, streak, density |
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| cube, hexagon, orthohombic, monoclinic, tetragonal, triclinic |
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| Metals : shiny, conducts electricity, easy to shape Non-metals Metals: dull, non-conductive, hard to shape |
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| hard mineral substances that contain one or more minerals |
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| process of rocks changing from one type of rock to another |
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| extrusive rock vs. intrusive rock |
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| extrusive: formed from lava, solid, glasses intrusive: formed from magma deep inside the earth |
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| formed from wind and water, lots of different things in it. |
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| made up from parts of other rocks |
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| made from things that were once living |
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| come from water, dried up seas or lakes |
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| changes in form by heat, pressure, and chemical |
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| What causes rocks to change? |
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| high temperature, high pressure, chemical reaction |
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| A mineral w the carbonate radical (CO3)-2 as in calcite and dolomite |
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| Any silicate mineral that contains iron, magnesium,or both |
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| nonferromagnesian silicate |
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| A silicate mineral that has no iron or magnesium. |
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| The part of the source base that can be extracted economically |
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| A concentration of naturally occurring solid, liquid, or gaseous material in or on Earth's crust in such form and amount that ecomonic extraction of a commodity from the concentration is currently or potentially feasible. |
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| A mineral that contains silica, such as quartz(SiO2). |
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| Describe an Isometric crystal and give an example. |
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| Shaped like a cube,octahedra,dodecahedra,etc. 3 axes of intersection, all of equal length and at 90-degree angles.Ex.gold, diamond. |
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| Describe a tetragonal crystal |
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| A rectangular prism with squares at two ends, often long and needle-like, Common shapes:above, pyramids, dipyramids. 3 axes of intersection, 2 equal and one not, intersect at 90-degree angles |
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| Describe an orthorhombic crystal and give an example |
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A rectangular prism with opposite sides congruent,generally short and stubby with diamond-shape or ractangular cross-section, Common shapes:4-sided prisms, pyramids, pinacoids. 3 unequal intersecting axes, intersect at 90-degree angles.Ex. sulfu, topaz |
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