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Extra Credit - How can the minerals in a rock be separated?

9/18/2014

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How can the minerals in a rock be separated?
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Jayden
9/21/2014 01:17:39 pm

Minerals in a rock can be separated by putting the minerals in one section and the and the other things in the rock will be in a other section.

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Mrs. Polay
9/21/2014 01:21:11 pm

Thanks Jayden, but how did we separate the mineral salt from the rest of the mock rock? How did we identify the mineral?

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Daschel
9/25/2014 04:01:39 am

You can separate minerals by taking an aluminium nail and hacking the rock apart and separating the minerals and then trying to find the minerals properties to identify them. You use an aluminum nail, a softer metal, because if it scratches the mineral, it means the mineral has a softer hardness (less than 3.5 on the Mohs scale)

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Noa
9/25/2014 09:18:21 am

In class we separated the rock from the water with a seringe. In science lab we separated the rock with an aluminum nail. We also separated the pieces of rock into groups of the properties.

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Zak
10/20/2014 08:21:11 am

The minerals in rock can be separated by using any aluminum object. In the science lab we used an aluminum nail to break apart the mock rock. I'm guessing that you could use anything that is harder than the rock to break it apart because that object would be able to crack open the rock.

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Jasmin Nazarian link
11/16/2014 10:18:10 am

Scratch with a fingernail, nail, or tile. Putting in a bag, and shaking, or banging with a hammer on the floor.

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