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How do you identify a mineral or crystal?
You can use hardness(Moh's Hardness Scale), luster, shape, and fracture to identify quartz.
How is quartz classified igneous metamorphic or sedimentary hardness luster cleavage etc?
A group of minerals are called a rock, Quartz isn't a rock, it's a mineral. It has a hardness of around 7, it doesn't have cleavege but has a conchoidal fracture.
What is the tendency of a mineral to break along parallel planar surfaces called?
Cleavage
Plural form of quartz?
The word quartz does not have a suffix. Quartz is a noun and is a mineral that is white and colorless and made of silicon dioxide.
What is a conchoidial fracture?
a conchoidial fracture is a "shell-like" fracture with a smooth curved surface
Does quartz have cleavage or a fracture?
Quartz does not have cleavage. However, it does have fracture. Its fracture is conchoidal.
What type of breakage is more common clevage or fracture?
frature
What is the breakage of a pearl?
Conchoidal Fracture. Clevage is impossible in a pearl
When quartz breaks will it form cleavage of fracture?
fracture
How do you catagorize a substance as a mineral?
Physical properties like clevage,fracture,color, ect.
What way does quartz break?
Fracture
What are two ways a mineral can break down?
Clevage-a flat cut. Fracture-a cut that hes bumps in it.
What type of fracture does class and quartz have?
Calcite and quartz have a conchoidal fracture, which results in smooth, curved-shaped fractures with characteristic concentric ripples.
What is it called when minerals do not show clevage?
When minerals do not display cleavage, they are said to have a fracture. Fracture describes the way a mineral breaks when it does not have cleavage planes. This can result in irregular or random patterns of breakage.
What pattern does quartz form when it breaks?
Fracture
If you break quartz what physical property?
When quartz is broken it has a conchoidal fracture. Fracture is the appearance of the broken plane of a mineral. A conchodal fracture is described a being curved, and looking like broken glass.
What is the clevage of halite?
Cleavage is a property of minerals. Sandstone is a rock type. As such it doesn't have the property of cleavage.Cleavage is a metamorphic fabric. Sandstone is not a metamorphic rock and thus can not display a cleavage.
