SIMPLE (Varieties)

Question 1

(Corundum variety) Pink to red variety, caused by impurities like chromium

Answer 1

Ruby

Question 2

(Hematite variety) Earthy, reddish variety used as a natural red pigment

Answer 2

Red Ochre

Question 3

Ice stalactite hanging down.

Answer 3

Icicle

Question 4

(Ilmenite variety) The alteration product of Ilmenite

Answer 4

Leucoxene

Question 5

(Ilmenite variety) Most important variety due to its widespread use in the production of titanium dioxide pigment

Answer 5

Ferrian Ilmenite

Question 6

Ice coating over other surfaces, formed during freezing rain storms.

Answer 6

Glaze

Question 7

Rounded ice pellet with alternating layers of snow and solid ice.

Answer 7

Hailstone

Question 8

Large mass of solid ice floating in the ocean, broken away from a landmass.

Answer 8

Iceberg

Question 9

(Cassiterite variety) A variety with wood-like appearance due to fibrous growth patterns

Answer 9

Wood Tin

Question 10

(Corundum variety) Blue gem variety caused by iron with titanium impurity

Answer 10

Sapphire

Question 11

(Perovskite variety) A variety rich in cerium

Answer 11

Knopite

Question 12

(Hematite variety) A pseudomorph of hematite after magnetite

Answer 12

Martite

Question 13

(Rutile variety) A variety that contains niobium

Answer 13

Needle Rutile

Question 14

(Corundum variety) Orange-pink gem variety of sapphire

Answer 14

Padparadscha

Question 15

(Periclase variety) Fe(II)-bearing variety

Answer 15

Ferropericlase

Question 16

(Rutile variety) Made of titanium dioxide, usually looks like metallic brown crystals

Answer 16

Struverite

Question 17

(Rutile variety) Minerals made of titanium dioxide; it’s found as hard, shiny crystals with a specific shape, and it can have various colors

Answer 17

Anatase

Question 18

(Ilmenite variety) Variety rich in magnesium, is valuable for industrial processes like making refractory materials

Answer 18

Picroilmenite

Question 19

Accumulated non-liquid precipitation.

Answer 19

Snow

Question 20

(Rutile variety) Quartz with inclusions of gold and yellow needle-like rutile inclusions

Answer 20

Rutilated Quartz

Question 21

(Hematite variety) Disorganized, flat, hexagonal plates that resemble a rose in their crystal formation

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Iron Rose

Question 22

Moving mass of compressed snow and ice flowing down a mountain.

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Glacier

Question 23

(Cuprite variety) A fibrous variety often appearing as delicate, hair-like crystals

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Chalcotrichite

Question 24

(Pyrolusite variety) Uncommon form that has larger, individual crystals

Answer 24

Polianite

Question 25

Individual snow crystal, often in small, perfect, hexagonal shapes.

Answer 25

Snowflake

Question 26

Frozen dew forming ice crystals.

Answer 26

Frost

Question 27

(Wüstite variety) Fe-bearing variety of periclase

Answer 27

Magnesiowüstite

Question 28

(Rutile variety) A tantalum-bearing form variety

Answer 28

Ilmenorutile

Question 29

(Perovskite variety) A variety that contains niobium

Answer 29

Dysanalyte

Question 30

(Ilmenite variety) Iron-rich variety

Answer 30

Washingtonite

Question 31

(Ilmenite variety) Magnesium-rich variety

Answer 31

Menaccanite

Question 32

(Uraninite variety) A massive, often globular, possibly impure variety

Answer 32

Pitchblende

Question 33

Spongy ice formed in flowing streams

Answer 33

Frazil

Question 34

(Rutile variety) Mineral made of titanium dioxide, usually looks like metallic brown crystals

Answer 34

Brookite

Question 35

(Hematite variety) Massive botryoidal form variety, and gives the appearance of lumpy kidney-like masses

Answer 35

Kidney Ore