Minerals 101

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A mineral must be _____________, meaning that it cannot come from materials that were once part of a living thing.

each mineral has a distinct one of these; it is found by devining mass by volume

Color of a minerals poder

this scale ranks ten minerals from softest to hardest

Particles that make up a mineral line up in a repeating pattern which forms a______.

_____________– how light is reflected from a mineral’s surface

____________ – if a mineral breaks easily along flat surfaces

_____________ – if a mineral breaks easily along flat surfaces