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| Minerals | a solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence.
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| Crystal Structure | is a unique arrangement of atoms, ions or molecules.
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| Moh's Hardness Scale | a mineral by its resistance to scratching.
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| Luster | a gentle sheen or soft glow, especially that of a partly reflective surface.
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| Cleavge | a sharp division; a split.
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| Fracture | the cracking or breaking of a hard object or material.
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| Streak | a long, thin line or mark of a different substance.
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| Hardness | the quality or condition of being hard.
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| Crystallization | a chemical solid and occurs in a crystallizer.
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| Solution | a liquid mixture in which the minor component.
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| Vein | a fracture in rock containing a deposit of minerals.
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| Geode | a rock containing a cavity lined with crystals.
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| Elements | a substance composed of a single kind of atom.
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| Compound | a thing that is composed of two or more separate elements.
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| Inongranic | not consisting of
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| Fluorescence | the visible or invisible radiation emitted by certain substances.
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| Texture | the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance.
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| Fine grined | consisting of small particles.
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| Course grined | slow cooling of magma far beneath earth's surface
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| Porphyry | magma cools in two stages
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| Intrusive Igneous Rock | Igneous rock formed from magma below earth's surface
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| Extrusive Igneous Rock | Igneous rock formed from lava that erupted onto the earth's surface
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| Sediment | small solid pieces of material from rocks or living things
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| Compaction | the process that presses sediments together
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| Erosion | the process in which running water wind or ice loosen and carry away Rock fragment
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| Cementaion | the process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together is
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| Depositation | the process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind carrying
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| Clastic Rock | sedimentary rock that forms when rock fragments are squeezed together under high pressure
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| Chemical rock | sedimentary rock that forms when minerals dissolved in a solution crystallize
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| Organic rock | sedimentary rock that forms from remains of plants and animals
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| Folited | metamorphic rock with grains arranged in parallel layers or bands
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| Nonfoliated | metamorphic rock with grains arranged ramdonly
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