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Why is color an unreliable property in mineral identification?

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Question added by Deleted user
Date Posted: 2016/03/19
Deleted user
by Deleted user

Greetings

Its because some minerals can takes more than one color due to impurities, for exemple let's take the famous quartz, he can be white, pink, gray or incolore.

 

Rustan Manalo
by Rustan Manalo , SUPERVISOR , ALMISNED JOINERY

TO EASILY IDENTIFY THE IDENTITY OF THE CHEMICALS.