Minerals and rocks are alike in many ways, but there also a lot of differences. Minerals are inorganic solid materials found in Nature. Rocks are combinations of two or more minerals. The properties used to find out if it is a mineral or not is listed below. There is also such thing called the Moh's Scale. Of 1 being the softest and 10 the hardest.
- Cleavage
- Fracture
- Color
- Hardness
- Streak
- Luster