Cleavage is the measure of how a mineral breaks along a plain when it is exposed to stress. If, when the mineral breaks, it retains a smooth surface along the broken plain it has cleavage. Hardness is the mineral's ability to resist scratching. Diamond is the hardest mineral and it cannot be scratched by anything except another diamond.
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∙ 12y agoThe internal atomic structure of a mineral most likely determines the mineral's hardness, cleavage and crystal shape.
there are a few basic tests to identify a material. hardness, color, lustor, crystal form, cleavage, and streak. I believe this is all of them, but it has been several years. They are classified by the same tests that identify them. For example, diamond is classified as a 10 hardness material (the only 10 hardness material) Glass is 7 hardness.
.A Ruby.A Gold Nugget.Coal.Brass.Obsidian.Basalt.Fluorite
1.All minerals are formed by natural process2.Minerals are inorganic/nonliving3.Minerals are made up of one or more elements4.All minerals are solids
Cobalt has a cleavage in three directions, forming a cube.
The internal atomic structure of a mineral most likely determines the mineral's hardness, cleavage and crystal shape.
Orthoclase Feldspar.
Galena
Graphite
Calcite is a mineral that is white or colorless and has a hardness of 2.5 and splits with cubic cleavage.
The original options for this question were cleavage, luster and hardness. The answer would be cleavage.
You can tell rocks apart by its hardness, cleavage, and streak
color, luster, fracture/cleavage, streak, hardness, density
the 5 properties are cleavage hardness luster color streak
Atomic arrangement.
the streak of the mineral
it determines the hardness of a mineral.