crystal habit

It is bright yellow in colour and usually has an acicular crystal habit.

The crystal habit of a mineral describes its visible external shape.

Crystal habit is also useful, but as it shares a similar structure and color with autunite.

These salts differ in terms of their hydration or crystal habit.

Several amphibole mineral species can have an asbestiform crystal habit.

A yellow brown mineral with orthorhombic crystal habit and a hardness of 5.

Crystal habit refers to the shapes that crystals exhibit.

The lack of crystal habit, associated with color, is also useful for identification, as are associated minerals.

Pliny is especially observant on crystal habit and mineral hardness for example.

The crystal habit, hardness, density, and garlic odor when struck are diagnostic.

Crystal habit is an overall description of the visible external shape of a mineral.

Crystal habit refers to the overall shape of crystal.

The names of crystal habits are derived from:

Some minerals such as garnet form a rhombic dodecahedral crystal habit.

The crystal habit is as platy and mammillary encrustations on its matrix.

Crystal twinning is common and adds complexity to the observed crystal habits.

The crystal habit of whitlockite also ranges from coarse granular to earthy.

Hydrogrossular is found in massive crystal habit, sometimes grown in with idocrase.

The many terms used by mineralogists to describe crystal habits are useful in communicating what specimens of a particular mineral often look like.

Satin spar is almost always prismatic and fibrous in a parallel crystal habit.

Bityite's crystal habit can display thin and pseudohexagonal platy crystals.

Additionally, it has a prismatic crystal habit.

Useful tests for determining if a specimen is caledonite include its density, streak, and crystal habit.

Clinohumite's crystal habit is usually granular, but may also be prismatic; crystals are almost always small.

Crystal habits include steep bipyramidal or wedge-shaped crystals.