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Luster
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Color
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Refraction
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Smoothness
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Detailed explanation-1: -lustre, in mineralogy, the appearance of a mineral surface in terms of its light-reflective qualities.
Detailed explanation-2: -Luster is appearance or quality of light reflected from the surface of the mineral. Some minerals have metallic or submetallic luster. However, most minerals have a nonmetallic luster, such as glassy, earthy, pearly, silky or even greasy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Luster: A mineral’s luster is the overall sheen of its surface – it may have the sheen of polished metal, or that of an unpolished metal that is pitted by weathering – or it may have the sheen of glass, or look dull or earthy, etc.
Detailed explanation-4: -Physical Properties Luster: The reflection of light from the surface of a mineral, described by its quality and intensity. Luster is described as metallic, glassy, dull, earthy, etc.
Detailed explanation-5: -Luster is a property that describes how light is reflected on the surface of a mineral. It is one of the properties mineralogists look at when trying to determine the identity of a mineral.