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A mineral is light colored, transparent, has a hardness of seven, and fractures rather than cleaves. what minerals is it?

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The correct answer is - quartz.

The quartz is a light colored, transparent mineral, with hardness of seven, and is characteristic that instead of cleaves it has fractures. This mineral is composed of silicon and oxygen atoms, which make a tetrahedral structure. It is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust, just after the feldspar.

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