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Fracture (mineralogy)
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1970-01-01
In
mineralogy
, "
fracture
" refers to the manner in which
a
mineral
breaks when it is not broken along its
cleavage
planes. Unlike
cleavage
, which is the tendency of
a
mineral
to break along
specific
planes of weakness,
fracture
describes the random or irregular
patterns
in which
a
mineral
can break.
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