click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
InventMineralElement
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Most Common on Earth | Oxygen |
Most Common in Universe | Hydrogen |
Most Common metal on Earth | Aluminum |
Best Conductor | Silver |
Lightest Element | Hydrogen |
Lightest Solid Element | Lithium |
Liquid at room temperature | Mercury and Bromine |
Lowest melting point | Helium |
Thermometer | Galileo |
Telescope | Lippershey |
Barometer | Torricelli |
Pendulum clock | Huygens |
Mercury thermometer | Fahernheit |
Lightning rod | Franklin |
Spinning Jenny | Hargreaves |
Spinning Frame | Arkwright |
Spinning Mule | Crompton |
Hot Aire Balloon | Montgolfier |
Electric Battery | Volta |
Canning | Appert |
Vulcanized Rubber | Goodyear |
Bicycle | Macmillan |
Safety Pin | Hunt |
Gyroscope | Foucault |
Passenger Elevator | Otis |
Steel Production | Bessemer |
Cylinder Lock | Yale |
Gramophone | Edison |
Cash Register | Ritty |
Fountain pen | Waterman |
Vaccuum Flask | Dewar |
Adding Machine | burroughs |
Gas Engine | Daimler |
Car with gas engine | Benz |
Pneumatic tire | Dunlop |
Photographic Film | Eastman |
Zipper | Judson |
Escelator | Reno |
Xray | Roentgen |
Airship | Von Zeppelin |
Radio | Marconi |
Electric Vacuum | Booth |
Electrodcardiograph | Einthoven |
Fax Machine | Korn |
Neon Light | claude |
Electric Shaver | Schick |
Ballpoint pen | Biro |
Nylon | Carrothers |
Helicopter | Sikorsky |
Polaroid camera | Land |
Transistor | Brittain, Bardeen, Shockley |
Moh 1 | Talc |
Moh 2 | Gypsum |
Moh 3 | Calcite |
Moh 4 | Fluorite |
Moh 5 | Apetite |
Moh 6 | Feldspare |
Moh 7 | Quartz |
Moh 8 | Topaz |
Moh 9 | Corundum |
Moh 10 | Diamond |
Ability of a mineral to resist scratches | Hardness |
Moh’s scale is a relative scale to measure this | Hardness |
Shows the color of the powdered mineral | Streak |
Performed by rubbing the mineral specimen across an unglazed porelain tile | streak |
Appearance of light reflected from the surface of rock | Luster |
Tendency to split along certain planar orientations | Cleavage |
Tendency to break unevenly along curved or irregular surfaces | Fracture |
Describes the appearance of a perfect crystal | crystal |
Field test for density | Heft |
Measured by comparing two samples in the hand | Heft |
Measured by measuring both volume and mass of sample and calculating | Heft |
Measure of density of rock compared to equal amount of water | Specific Gravity |
Rock that is not heavier than water | Pumice |
Ability of mineral to transmit light of a different wavelength that is used to illuminate specimen | Fluorescence |
Phosphorescence | Elements that continue to emit light after the source is removed. |
Produces double image of object viewed through it | Double Refraction |