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Minerals
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What basic mineral test is used to measure color? | Color |
| What basic mineral test is used to measure the color of its powder? | Streak |
| What mineral test is used to measure the light reflection from surface? | Luster |
| What mineral test is used to measure the breakage | Cleavage |
| What mineral test measures the withstand of scratching and abrasion? | Hardness |
| What mineral test is used to find the mass and volume to water? | Specific gravity |
| What has a metallic luster? | Copper |
| What has a pearly luster | Gypsum |
| Adamanite (brillant Luster) | diamond |
| What has a silky luster? | Asbestos |
| Flint(Conchoidal Fracture) | Break along a smooth surface |
| Asbestos(fibrous fracture) | break produces splinters |
| Chlorite(uneven fracture) | surface are irregular and rough |
| Scale to measure hardness | Mohs Scale |
| Hardness Scale: 1)2)3) | -Talc - Quartz - Diamond |
| Invented scale to measure hardness | Friedrich Mohs |
| What can be identified in an acid test? | Carbonates, Sulfides and sulfites |
| What is used during an acid test | Hydroloux acid |
| Example of Magnetism | Magnetite |
| What is Magnetite also called | Lobestone |
| what do we use for a radioactive test | guger counter |
| emit light while absorbing radiation | fluorescent |
| illuminate after light source is removed | phosphorescent |
| What has double refraction | Calcite |
| 3 ways gold is seperated from sand in placer deposits | Panning, sluicing, dredginy |
| Washing in pan | panning |
| washing where gold collects behind croosbars | sluicing |
| one of most densest mineraks | gold |
| stream deposits of gold | placer deposits |
| measured in karats | gold |
| transmits light but not heat | gold |
| silvers streak is... | silver white |
| what do we use to conduct electricity | copper |
| used for electrical purposes | silver |
| more dense than gold | platinum |
| hardest known substance | diamond |
| diamond is made of pure.. | carbon |
| what has a perfect cleavage | diamond |
| if a diamond is not cute it has a what kind of luster | greasy |
| diamonds form through the process know as | accretion |
| carats with a c means... | mass |
| karats with a k means... | purity |
| 1 carat= | 0.2 grams |
| sulfur has a what kind of fracture | conchoidal |
| what are the compound mineral | silicates, oxides, sulfides and carbonates |
| silicates are composed of what 2 things | silicon and oxygen |
| what is the most abundant mineral | silicates |
| most common mineral in the earths crust | feldspar |
| 2nd most common mineral in the earths crust | quartz |
| chief source of important metals | oxides |
| examples of oxides | iron ore(magnetite) lead ore(gelena) and aluminum ore(bauxite) |
| composed of at least 1 metal & surfur | sulfides |
| ex of sulfide | pyrite |
| metal with carbonate ion | corbonates |
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