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You are a geologist hiking along a trail collecting rock samples. You come across a group of loose crystals which have broken away from the rocks, so you bring them back to the lab to figure out which minerals they could be.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 16, 2018
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Answer: First, I would examine the color and luster of the crystals to narrow it down a bit. I would find the different masses of the minerals to determine their density and compare them to other specimens in textbooks. This would narrow my search down even more. Then, I would conduct the scratch test on the various minerals, scratching one another and ranking them in order, then comparing them to the Mohs Hardness Scale. After, I would examine the cleave of the mineral, and compare that to known minerals' cleaves. Last, I would find the streak of the minerals, and at this point, the minerals should be identified.

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:D TYSM

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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