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If a diamond is the hardest naturally occurring substance, how can one be cut? What will be an ideal response?

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What is the most distinctive physical property of the mineral halite? What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

It is actually cleaved, along one of its four directions

Answer to Question 2

The salty taste.





 

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