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For the most part, I found that hardness helped me identify my mineral the
most because I thought that my mineral could be apatite, but then I discovered that
the hardness of apatite was different from quartz.
In order to test the harness, I scratched my mineral on different types of
minerals and whatever mineral scratched mine would determine how hard the
mineral was; this method is called the Mohs Hardness Scale.
Then, I tested streak, which is the powder that a mineral leaves when scratched on
hematite, my mineral had a white streak.
Finally, I looked at luster, which is how a mineral reflects light, and my mineral did
not have luster.