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Crystallography

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Scientific study of the structure and symmetry of crystals

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Crystal Faces

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The planar, flat surfaces of a mineral grain that stopped growing when it was still in contact with gas or liquid.

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Chemical properties

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Some minerals react with dilute hydrochloric acid. Other minerals taste salty as a result of chemical reactions that take place on the surface of our tongues.

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Physical properties

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Determined by the mineral composition structure colour and the Lester of its surface.

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Colour

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Different colours are related to the impurities.

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Streak

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The colour of a fine green powder of a mineral is called a streak.

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Luster

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Appearance of a mineral surface in reflected light

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Metallic minerals

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Often subject to oxidation, tarnish, or other forms of chemical weathering that might alter their appearance

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Thin sections

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Carefully ground slices of minerals and rocks mounted on glass slides

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Submetallic lustre

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Elester that seems intermediate between metallic and nonmetallic. Might be affected by tarnish or oxidation like rust on steel

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Vitreous

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Resembles the lustre or sheen of glass

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Resinous

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Resembles a resin like Amber or dried Tree sap

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Silky

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A silk like reflection of light from thin parallel mineral fiber’s

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Pearly

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Resembles lustre of a pearl

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Earthy

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Lacking reflection like dry soil (dull)

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Waxy

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Resembles wax

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Satin

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Resemble Sat and cloth

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Greasy

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Looks like it’s covered in a thin film of oil or grease

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Opaque minerals

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Do not allow light to pass through them

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Euhedral

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Well developed Crystal faces. Only develop if Crystal is unrestricted as it grows in a gas or liquid

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Subhedral

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Mineral grains are partly bound by well formed crystals

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Anhedral

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Mineral grains grew into the space between existing solid mineral greens and have no apparent crystal faces on their grain boundaries

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Cleavage

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The tendency of some minerals to break Along flat, parallel surfaces

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No cleavage

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No broken parallel surfaces

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One cleavage

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Basal (book) Cleavage. Split apart along flat sheets

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Two cleavage is intersect at or near 90°

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Prismatic cleavage. Elongated forms that fracture a long short rectangular cross sections

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To cleavages do not intersect at 90°

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Prismatic cleavage. Elongated forms that fracture a long short parallelogram cross sections

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Three cleavages intersect at 90°

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Cubic cleavage. Shapes made up of cubes and parts of cubes

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Three cleavages do not intersect at 90°

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Rhombohedral cleavage. Shapes made of rhombohedrons and parts of rhombohedrons

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Forming cleavages intersect at 71° and 109° to form octagons which split along hexagon shaped surfaces many have secondary cleavages at 60° and 120°

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Octahedral cleavage. Shapes made of octahedrons in parts of octahedrons

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Six cleavage is intersect at 60° and 120°

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Dodecahedral cleavage. Shapes made of dodecahedrons and parts of the decahedrons

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Muscovite, biotite, chlorite

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Basal cleavage

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Plagioclase
Pyroxene
Orthoclase

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Prismatic 90°

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Halite

Galena

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Cubic cleavage

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Fluorite

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Octahedral cleavage

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Sphalerite

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Dodecahedral cleavage

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Calcite

Dolomite

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Rombohedral not at 90

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Amphibole

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Prismatic not at 90

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Quartz

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No cleavage

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Fracture

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Any break in a mineral that does not occur along a cleavage playing is called

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Conchoidal

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Smooth curved fracture surfaces, like glass

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Uneven

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Rough irregular fracture surfaces

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Hackly

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Breaks along jagged services like broken metal

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Splintery

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Splinters like wood

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Fibrous

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Separates into soft fibres like cloth

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Hardness

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Minerals hardness is a measure of its resistance to scratching

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Softest material one on hardness scale

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Hardest material 10 on hardness scale

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Hard minerals

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Can scratch glass but cannot be scratched with a knife blade or masonry nail

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Soft minerals

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Will not scratch glass but can be scratched with a knife blade or masonry nail

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Tenacity

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Substance resists pulling or breaking apart. Brittle, malleable, elastic or flexible

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Reaction to acid

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If mineral effervesces or physics or not

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Hardness scale 2

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Hardness scale three

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Hardness scale four

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Hardness scale six

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Orthoclase feldspar

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Hardness scale seven

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Hardness scale eight

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Hardness scale nine

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Fingernail

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Hardness 2.5

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Wire nail

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Hardness 4.5

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Glass, masonry nail, knife blade

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Hardness 5.5

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Streak plate

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Hardness 6.5

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Striations

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Straight hairline grooves on the cleavage services of Crystal faces

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Magnetism

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Magnetic minerals are attracted to a magnet. Such as magnetite

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