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    The document discusses the physical properties of minerals that are used to identify them, including color, luster, streak, hardness, cleavage, fracture, tenacity, structural forms or habits, and specific gravity. It provides descriptions of different structural forms minerals can take, such as tubular, columnar, bladed, lamellar, fibrous, radiating, acicular, granular, botryoidal, reniform, and mammillary.

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    The study of minerals : Minerology

    PROPERTIES OF MINERALS
    (PHYSICAL)
    1. Colour
    2. Lusture
    3. Streak
    4. Hardness
    5. Cleavage
    6. Fracture
    7. Tenacity
    8. Structural Forms or Habits
    9. Specific Gravity
    COLOUR and STREAK
    HARDNESS
    CLEAVAGE and FRACTURE
    CLEAVAGE and FRACTURE cont…
    STRUCTURAL FORMS OR HABITS

    TUBULAR slightly longer than wide, flat tablet shaped


    COLUMNAR Long, slender prisms often with parallel growth
    BLADED Blade-like, slender and flattened
    LAMELLAR Layered structure, parting into thin sheets
    FIBROUS Extremely slender fiber prisms
    RADIATING Needle-like, slender and/or tapered,
    Radiating outward from a central point
    ACICULAR Needles are not Radiating from a central point
    GRANULAR Aggregates or grain like crystals in matrix
    BOTROYDAL or GLOBULAR Rounded bulb or Grape-like,
    hemispherical masses
    REINFORM Similar to botryoidal/ mamillary: intersecting
    kidney-shaped masses
    larger version of botryoidal, also concentric
    MAMMILLARY
    layered aggregates

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