What physical properties used to identify an unknown mineral aremost useful? Why?

What physical properties used to identify an unknown mineral are most useful? Why?

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physical property used to identify unknown minerals are-

color, hardness, streak, cleavage, crystal form, and fracture are the most useful

because with the help of color we can decide whether it is a light-colored mineral or dark-colored, and by hardness, we can correlate with the moho scale of hardness and streak which is a powdered form of a mineral are very distinct for most of the minerals and number of sets of cleavage are also very distinct for the set of minerals and fracture is can be used to identify the minerals like quartz breaks with a conchoidal fracture, quartz has a hexagonal appearance and colorless, mica are always with a basal cleavage and cherry red is a distinguishing property of haematite.

Amanda K answered 1 year ago

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