Which of the following is a characteristic of all minerals?
A) Crystalline solids
B) Minerals are inorganic
C) All minerals are formed in a natural process
D) All the above
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D) All the above.
Scientists have found out more than 4,000 minerals from the Earth’s crust, although the mass of the planet is made up of just a few of them.
A mineral must possess the following qualities.
(1) It should be solid.
(2) It must be in the crystalline form, that means it should have a repeating atoms arrangement.
(3) It should be naturally occurring.
(4) It has to be inorganic.
(5) It should have a specific chemical composition.
(6) Minerals can be found out by their physical properties, like color, hardness, odor and shine.
The most common laboratory method of finding out a mineral is the X-ray diffraction (XRD) method.
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