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8 Cards in this Set
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Calcite |
Fizzes with acid, usually white-clear CaCO3 Calcium carbonate |
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Halite |
Tastes like salt, usually white-clear NaCl Sodium Chloride |
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Gypsum |
Softer than fingernail, usually white-clear Ca SO4 Calcium Sulfate |
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Iron Oxides |
Soft, Rusty red or orange FeO |
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Quartz |
Glassy, translucent, white-gray, irregular breakage, harder than glass *nonferromagnesian Silicate |
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Feldspar |
Squarish crystals, opaque, light gray, pink, harder than glass *nonferromagnesian Silicate |
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Mica |
Breaks into thin, eleastic sheets, light gray-black Silicate |
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Pyroxene |
Darkish greenish black, Dull, harder than glass silicate *(ferromagnesian) |
