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Chapter 3: Minerals And Rocks Flashcards

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Substances that are found naturally in the earth and have a crystalline structure

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Minerals

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The branch of geology that deals with the identification and classification of minerals

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Mineralogy

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Substances that cost naturally in the earth’s crust as single, unconvinced elements. (This is the smallest group of mineral classification.)

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Native elements

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Compounds made with the elements fluorine, bromine, chlorine, or iodine. (Examples include: halite, sylvite, and flourished.)

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Halides

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Two specific minerals that contains the element sulfur

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Sulfides (pyrite and cinnabar)
Sulfates (anhydride and gypsum)

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Minerals that contain the element oxygen bonded to a metal

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Oxides

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Minerals containing carbon bonded to oxygen

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Carbonates

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BONUS: What is the most common carbonate mineral?

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Calcite

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Minerals containing the element phosphorous bonded to four oxygen atoms

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Phosphates

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The largest mineral group which composes over 90% of the earth’s crust

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Silicates (all of which contain silicon, oxygen, and other elements)

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Geometric structures that are composed of atoms or molecules and have an orderly arrangement (this characteristic is shared by all minerals)

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Crystals

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The many flat surfaces of a crystal

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Faces

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The line of powder left by a mineral on a piece of unglazed porcelain

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Streak

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The way light is reflected from the surface of a mineral

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Luster

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The resistance of a smooth surface of a mineral to being scratched

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Hardness

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Hardness scale that is rated 1-10 (from softest to hardest), providing a standard of comparison for all other minerals

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Mohs scale

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The tendency of a mineral to break readily along certain flat surfaces (planes), producing fragments with he same shape as the parent mineral

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Cleavage

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Minerals that do not possess the ability to break readily along flat surfaces break in different shapes. This property is called…

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Fracture

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A number that compares an object’s density to the density of water

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Specific gravity

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The ratio of the mass of any volume of a substance to the mass of an equal volume of water

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Specific gravity

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Test of placing a drop of diluted hydrochloric _________ on a specimen of a mineral

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Acid test

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Property of a mineral that causes it to glow when exposed to ultraviolet light

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Flourescence

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Property of a mineral that causes it to continue to glow for a while after being exposed to ultraviolet light, then placed in the dark

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Phosphorescence

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Another hardness test used for industrial purposes, which consists of striking a small, very hard ball into the material being tested

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Brinell hardness test

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General term for extracting minerals from the earth

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Mining

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6 of the most important metals extracted from the earth

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Gold, silver, copper, iron, aluminum, and platinum

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Any mineral containing a valuable metallic element is called an ______.

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Ore (e.g. hematite is an iron ore)

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The science of extracting metals from the earth and preparing them for use

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Metallurgy

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Three steps of metallurgy

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  1. Extracting
  2. Refining
  3. Shaping
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30
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The most abundant element in the earth’s crust

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Aluminum

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The refining process which included heating the metal in a high-pressure container with lye (sodium hydroxide)

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Bayer process

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Refining process that involves dissolving the chemical (produced in the Bayer process) in the mineral cryolite and using electricity to remove the final refined metal

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Hall-Heroult process

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Metal used for producing aircraft, spacecraft, automobile wheels, and other applications( i.e. soft can drinks, kitchen foil) due to its lightness and strength

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Aluminum

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The second most common metal in the earth’s crust; found in large deposits in China, Brazil, Australia, India, Russia

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Iron

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The primary method through the ages for refining iron by processing the iron ore with limestone and coke to form pig iron

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Blast furnace

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A more environmentally-conscious way to refine iron using methane gas instead of coke

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Direct iron reduction

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A metal mixture of two or more metals

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Alloy

38
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The alloy of iron and carbon

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Steel

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The alloy of iron, carbon, and nickel or chromium

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Stainless steel

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A reddish-orange metal used as the coating of pennies; a good conductor of electricity; easy to shape into thin bands

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Copper

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An alloy of copper and zinc

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Brass

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An alloy of copper and tin

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Bronze

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Metal used for radiation shielding, automobile batteries, and small-arms ammunition

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Lead

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Metal primarily used in stainless steel, electrical heating elements, certain scientific instruments, and magnets

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Nickel

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Metal used to coat other metals to prevent corrosion (used in making cans for food)

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Tin

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Metal used in making coins and in preventing corrosion

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Zinc

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Metal used as fuel for nuclear reactors

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Uranium

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Metals valued for their durability, rarity, and beauty

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Precious metals

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Precious metal that has been treasured by man since early times; much of it is formed into bars called bullion and stored in guarded vaults as a financial reserve

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Gold

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A precious metal used in making jewelry, tableware, and other items that display its luster; the most reflective of all metals in its purest state

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Silver

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The best known conductor of heat and electricity at normal temperatures; also used in photographic films

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Silver

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White-grey precious metal considered to be even more valuable than gold or silver because of its many uses

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Platinum

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The rarest, most durable, and most beautiful minerals

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Precious stones

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Precious stone with Mohs value of ten

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Diamond

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What are the four Cs

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Caret weight, clarity, color, and cut

56
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The red variety of corundum

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Ruby

57
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Blue corundum containing traces of iron or titanium

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Sapphire

58
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Green beryl containing traces of chromium oxide

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Emerald

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Gems that are not as rare, durable or esteemed as precios stones

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semiprecious stones

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Look like natural gemstone but have different chemical and physical properties (imitation stones)

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Simulant gemstones

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Identical to their natural counterparts in appearance and chemical content

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Synthetic gemstones

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The process of growing a large crystal on and around a small crystal

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overgrowth

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Process that drops powdered chemicals into a blowtorch flame

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flame-fusion process

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Method that begins by melting ingredient powders in a container

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puled method

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A highly complicated process that is primarily used for making emeralds and certain non-gemstone materials

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hydrothermal synthesis

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The hard material that makes up the earths crust

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rock

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The branch of geology that is concerned with the origin, composition, and structure of rocks

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petrology

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Rocks that form when magma solidifies

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igneous rock

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Rock that hardens while still underground

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intrusive rock

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Rocks that are forced out of the earth as lava and cool

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extrusive rock

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The chief condition affecting an igneous rocks texture

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the rate at which the magma cools

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The most common igneous rock

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basalt

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Mixed texture rock that cools slowly and then quickly

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porphyritic rock

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When magma cools very quickly and no crystals form

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amorphous rock

75
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The best example of amorphous igneous rock

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obsidian

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Rock that forms when heat, pressure, and chemical action fuse sediments together

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sedimentary rock

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Hard, round structures that form when minerals settle out of water

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concretions

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The horizontal rock layer that has different types of rock layer above it

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stratum

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States that any undisturbed strata will lie in the order that they were laid down

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law of superposition

80
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Rock formed from fragments (clasts) of other rocks

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clastic sedimentary rock

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The most abundant sedimentary rock

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shale

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Consist of grains of sand cemented together into rock

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sandstone

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