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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