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What is not a property that can be used to identify a mineral?​

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Color.

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In this case, among the properties minerals have, we list: color , streak which is the color as a powder , hardness , cleavage or fracture , crystalline structure , diaphaneity or degree of transparency, tenacity which is the capacity of its molecules to be held together, magnetism which is the capacity to attract or repel other magnetic materials , luster which explains if its surface reflects light , odor , taste and specific gravity which is a relationship between its density and the density of water.

In such a way, since the most of them are known as measurements, we can distinguish among minerals by contrasting those data, nevertheless, color is not a suitable property to identify a material since there could exist minerals with similar colors.

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