What mineral is this? Egg-sized piece. Transparent pink color with glassy luster. Shows conchoidal fracture. The hardness is 7.
2 answers:
Answer: Pink Quartz
Explanation:
Quartz. Can come on different colours like pink, white, gray, purple, black, yellow or green.
<u>Luster</u> means Appearance, Quartz unlike Silica, looks like glass.
<u>Conchoidal fracture: </u>It´s how Quartz´s surface fractures on a smoothly curved way.
Hardness is mineral´s property of being scratched by others. Mohs scale of mineral hardness is used to classify a mineral as softer or not. In this case, quartz has a hardness of 7, that means it´s quite hard, since the scale starts in 1 and finishes in 10.
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