Explain How Color May Be Used To Identify Minerals At Different Levels Of Hardness

Mineralogy- An important part of Geology is the study of Minerals, their physical properties, structure, and chemistry. It helps us understand how they react with one another depending on the circumstances including weathering, fire, how deep, with living or non-living organisms. Minerology is broad and interesting field of study.

There are two types of minerals that we find in Earth - rock-forming and ore minerals.

Issamel Velazquez Human Geo 4/12/13 P3 Chapter 14 Key Issue 1 1. A resource is a substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use. 2. The problem is that most resources are limited, and Earth has

Geology is the study of the Earth’s crust through the crust’s chemical composition and physical properties. The way that geologists are able to figure out the

2. Unit 2.1: Mineralogy Mineralogy is a subject of geology. Mineralogy deals with the different properties of minerals. Mineralogy deals also with chemistry such as the structure of an atom.

2. Why is glass not a mineral? • A glass isn’t a mineral because crystalline structure in which the atoms make up a mineral aren’t distributed randomly and cannot move around easily, and the atoms in a glass aren’t arranged in an orderly pattern. Moreover, both minerals and glasses are solids, and they can retain their shape, but a mineral is crystalline ,and glass is not because the atoms, ions, or molecules are the elements in a mineral are ordered into a crystal lattice, and glass doesn’t has those elements and disorderly arrange.

Example, diamond - physical properties entail shape, size, weight. But features such as color, glitter, and hardness properties of the relations between the diamond and other things.

Minerals can indicative of environmental condition when these rocks formed. For instance, olivine and pyroxene, two primary minerals in basalt. Scientists are able to study more about the role of water to form these minerals. For instance, gypsum is a mineral which is contain calcium, sulfur, and water. Anhydrite is a calcium and sulfur mineral without water in its crystal structure. CheMin is able to identify the two. Also, minerals are linked to specific environments and CheMin can search for minerals that indicative of a past Martian environment and then

Minerals can be used for a variety of different things. Without knowing it, they could be in the walls of a house, or there could be minerals in food. Also in Hollywood, Gypsum is used as fake snow(“Other Uses of Gypsum”). Gypsum has different forms like Alabaster, and Satin spar. Having different forms contributes to the reason why it has many different uses. Alabaster is known as a healing rock and is used for meditation. It also is very chalky while Satin spar is known for being very silky (Desy 1). Overall, Gypsum is utilized in everyday life because it can be used for a variety of different things like industrial items and food.

The shale is a light to medium gray rock. It has slaty cleavages. The shale has a dull luster and is composed mostly of quartz and clay. The grain size is fine with a smooth texture. It has distinctive compositional horizontal bedding of about 2.2cm (light gray) to 12cm (dark gray) in thickness. The bedding is horizontal and parallel to the ground with a thickness of approximately 16cm to 24cm.

The color to an Agate mineral is very special in it's own way. The Agate has it's very own unique color pattern that no other Agate is capable of having. When trying to find an Agate the color will help the most. In order to find the mineral, you must look on the beach, not only looking on the beach will help but you must look for an Iron Oxide Red color. That's when the role of color comes to play.

Scientists discovered that some mountains in the world are made up of the same rock as other mountains in the world. For example, there is a mountain

A tectonic plate was just sub ducted and the rocks and minerals around the subduction area are about to change. They will change because of how the plates have moved. The plates have moved because of the way magma underground has moved. The magma has a mind of its own when it comes to flowing somewhere underground, because it doesn’t have any way to stop unless it cools and hardens into rock. It will change the rocks and minerals every time hot magma runs over it and melts the rock again. The rock could change shape, color, size, and could potentially change all the minerals inside the rock.

Volcano eruptions bring newborn rocks to the world. Every year, rock families would wait around volcanos for the erupted magma or surface lava to cool down. Each family would adopt the baby igneous rocks of their type, who share the same genes, or minerals, as them. These igneous rocks could have a variety of appearance and crystal sizes. Some rocks composed of surface lava have smaller, less complex crystalline structures. They were cooled much faster when they were in contact with air or water, and larger, more complex crystalline structure would not be formed before they harden. On the adoption day, all kinds of rocks could be spotted; with different lustre, colour, crystalline structure, and mineral composition.

10.2.4 Rose Wine Glass Figure 10.2.4.1 Rose wine glass Rose wine glass has smaller The main characteristic to classify crystal or glass is the content of lend in the glass. Lead that in crystal make its more easily cut and engraved are the presence of the lead soften the glass in crystal. The lead also increases the weight of the crystal glass and light will diffract though the glass. For the glass stemware has the lighter weight than crystal glass and light will not diffract though the glass.