DESCRIPTION
This minerals collection provides step-by-step instructions to help you identify each of the 22 specimens. Learn about mineral hardness and the Mohs hardness scale, cleavage and fracture, tenacity, and the streak and color of minerals. You will also learn what a mineral is and find out more about each of the specimens included. The kit includes numbers to attach to each mineral once you've identified it for easy reference in the future. Once you've numbered each mineral specimen, store them in the included collection tray.
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Know Your Minerals Study Kit
- 22 mineral specimens (unlabeled)
- study guide
- collection box with compartmentalized tray
- printed numbers for labeling minerals
- small bottle of white glue
- printed hardness scale card
- mini magnifier
- nail
- ceramic streak plate
Know Your Minerals typical samples:
- Talc
- Gypsum
- Calcite
- Fluorite
- Apatite
- Microcline
- Quartz
- Mica
- Halite
- Feldspar
- Obsidian
- Serpentine
- Copper
- Selenite
- Sulfur
- Graphite
- Pyrite
- Hematite
- Jasper
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