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Minerals may break across planes due to their atomic arrangements. What is the term used for this type of break
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Minerals may break across planes due to their atomic arrangements. What is the term used for this type of break

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It should be cleavage for the type of break because a cleavage fracture follows the geometry of the atoms. :) 
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