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| natually occuring inorganic solid with defintie chimical composition and an orderly arrangement of atoms |
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| solid atoms are arranged in orderly repeating patterns |
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| hot melted rock material,melted when it reaches earths surface as magma cools its atoms loose heat energy,move closer together and begin to combine into compounds |
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| minerals that contain silicon and oxygen and usually one or more elements in earth. two most abundant elements in earth crust |
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| a measure of how easily a mineral can be sctrached |
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| the way a mineral reflects light lust can be a nonmettallic or mettalic luster nonmetallic or glassy dull pearly silky common examples of quartz with glassy luster are calcite halite flurite |
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| minerlas ratio of its wieght comparede to its equal volume of water gold is 15 pyraite is 5 |
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| is a color of a mineral when it is in a powered form gold has yellow brown pyrate has greenish black color |
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| minrlas that break along smooth flat surfaces also determined parlty by the arrangments of the minerlas atoms |
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| minerals that break along uneven rough or jagged surfaces quartes have a mineral with a fracture |
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| a mineral or rock that can be mined at a profit |
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