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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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What does the internal atomic structure of a mineral most likely determine?
The internal atomic structure of a mineral most likely determines the mineral's hardness, cleavage and crystal shape.
How mineralogist identify and classify materials?
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.
What are the seven basic physical properties of minerals?
.A Ruby.A Gold Nugget.Coal.Brass.Obsidian.Basalt.Fluorite
Characteristics of a mineral?
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
What is the cleavage of copper?
Cobalt has a cleavage in three directions, forming a cube.
What does the internal atomic structure of a mineral most likely determine?
The internal atomic structure of a mineral most likely determines the mineral's hardness, cleavage and crystal shape.
Which mineral has a hardness of 6 and has cleavage?
Orthoclase Feldspar.
What mineral has a hardness of 6 and shows cleavage?
Galena
Which mineral shows no cleavage has a hardness of 6.5 and a composition of SIO?
Graphite
What mineral has a hardness of 2.5-3?
Calcite is a mineral that is white or colorless and has a hardness of 2.5 and splits with cubic cleavage.
What mineral breaks into small sheets?
The original options for this question were cleavage, luster and hardness. The answer would be cleavage.
How can you tell rocks apart?
You can tell rocks apart by its hardness, cleavage, and streak
What properties does a mineral?
color, luster, fracture/cleavage, streak, hardness, density
What are the 5 properties?
the 5 properties are cleavage hardness luster color streak
A mineral's crystal shape and cleavage are a direct result of the mineral's...?
Atomic arrangement.
What determines whether a mineral displays fracture or cleavage?
the streak of the mineral
A student broke a mineral sample with a type of a hammer on a sharp chisel what property is he investigating?
He is either investigating if it is facture or cleavage. Or he could be trying to test it's hardness. He is either investigating if it is facture or cleavage. Or he could be trying to test it's hardness.
