Minerals/Metals/Transitions/Quiz

A large, sculptural specimen of penny-bright copper is from Arizona. Credit: Robert Lavinsky.

Transition metal minerals is a lecture from the school of geology and the radiation astronomy department. It is about solid, crystalline substances that occur in and compose astronomical objects including the Earth. It focuses on materials containing large amounts of metals that may occur on the surface of or associated with some astronomical objects.

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1 Yes or No, Aluminum is an aluminide element.

	Yes
	No

2 Bayerite is a polymorph of gibbsite and has the same chemical

3 True or False, Aluminium is an aluminide element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

4 The type locality for native aluminum is the Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka,

5 True or False, Boron is an alkali element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

6 Complete the text:

The designation for aluminum is Al0. It has been found as a flake protruding from the matrix of a rock specimen collected from a pegmatite vein.

7 Yes or No, Gallium is an aluminide element.

	Yes
	No

8 Corundum is a mineral that is associated with which of the following

	predicting the end of the Earth
	determine the accuracy of local computers
	sapphire
	emery
	predicting when currently dormant volcanoes will erupt
	ruby

9 Yes or No, Silicon is a metalloid element.

	Yes
	No

10 True or False, Indium is a transition-metal element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

11 Yes or No, Radium is an actinide element.

	Yes
	No

12 Carnotite is a potassium uranium

radioactive mineral.

13 Yes or No, Lead is an actinide element.

	Yes
	No

14 Autunite occurs as an oxidizing product of uranium minerals in granite pegmatites and hydrothermal

.

15 True or False, Actinium is an actinide element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

16 Complete the text:

Elements usually emit a during nuclear or .

17 True or False, Actinide minerals, or actinides, are those with unusually high concentrations, atomic per cents, or weight per cents, of the actinide elements.

	TRUE
	FALSE

18 Carnotite is a mineral that may be associated with which phenomena?

	varying water content
	small amounts of calcium, barium, magnesium, iron, and sodium
	a bright to greenish yellow mineral
	demonstrating that Venus was once a comet
	amounts as low as one percent will color sandstone a bright yellow.
	an important uranium ore
	usually found in sedimentary rocks in arid climates

19 Yes or No, Thorium is an actinide element.

	Yes
	No

20 A terrestrial planet is composed primarily of?

21 Yes or No, Protactinium is an actinide element.

	Yes
	No

22 The primary source of the world's thorium is the rare-earth, and thorium, phosphate mineral

.

23 Yes or No, Uranium is an actinide element.

	Yes
	No

24 Complete the text:

The extremely rare element technetium can be found in in very small quantities (about 0.2 ng/kg), produced by the fission of uranium-238.

25 True or False, Neptunium is an actinide element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

26 Which geochemical phenomena are associated with thorianite?

	thorium oxide
	lightning
	common in the alluvial gem-gravels of Sri Lanka
	the mineral is slightly less radioactive than pitchblende
	liquid methane oceans
	water worn, small, heavy, black, cubic crystals

27 True or False, There are blue or blue mineral containing meteorites.

	TRUE
	FALSE

28 True or False, Plutonium is an actinide element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

29 Phenomena associated with torbernites?

	have a gaseous surface
	radioactive
	hydrated green copper uranyl phosphate mineral
	isostructural with the related uranium mineral, autunite
	the number of water hydration molecules can vary between 12 and 8
	gives rise to a variety of metatorbernite when torbernite spontaneously dehydrates

30 True or False, Americium is an actinide element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

31 The rarest naturally occurring element on Earth is named

32 True or False, Curium is an actinide element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

33 Uranophane is a rare calcium uranium

hydrate mineral.

34 True or False, Berkelium is an actinide element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

35 Red ochre is a natural pigment composed of what likely source of red?

36 True or False, Californium is an actinide element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

37 Match up the crystal with the mineral

uraninite - A

monazite - B

pitchblende - C

thorianite - D

.

.

.

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38 Yes or No, Einsteinium is an actinide element.

	Yes
	No

39 A gamma-ray spectrum for autunite is likely to show peaks for Ra-226,

and Bi-214.

40 True or False, Fermium is an actinide element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

41 Fullerite appears to be a tentative name for the mineral occurrence of

.

42 True or False, Fermium isotopes have been found in precambrian carbonate rocks from Sao Paulo State.

	TRUE
	FALSE

43 Chaoites are another hexagonal form of native

44 Yes or No, Mendelevium is an actinide element.

	Yes
	No

45 Complete the text:

The mineral Lonsdaleite is a translucent, and is made from the atoms of but the arrangement of these atoms is different from the of carbon atoms in a .

46 Yes or No, Nobelium is an actinide element.

	Yes
	No

47 Elpidite has the formula Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O. As a chalcogen mineral it is also a

.

48 Yes or No, Lawrencium is an actinide element.

	Yes
	No

49 Complete the text:

At volcanic locations, native sulfur can be seen flowing and it is .

50 Yes or No, Silicon is an aluminide element.

	Yes
	No

51 Elyite has the chemical formula Pb₄Cu(SO₄)(OH)₈. Which chalcogens are contained in the mineral?

	lead
	copper
	sulfur
	oxygen
	hydrogen
	plumbum

52 True or False, Indium is an aluminide element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

53 Yes or No, Aluminum is an carbonide element.

	Yes
	No

54 Which of the following are diamond cubic metals or metalloids?

	manganese
	silicon
	osmium
	germanium
	platinum
	copper
	α-tin

55 True or False, Diamond is an carbonide element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

56 Which of the following are hexagonal close-packed metals?

	manganese
	ε-iron
	cobalt below 450°C
	rhodium
	platinum
	copper
	rhenium

57 True or False, Boron occurs naturally in chaoites.

	TRUE
	FALSE

58 Which of the following are precious metals?

	boron
	technetium
	osmium
	rhodium
	platinum
	copper
	silver

59 Yes or No, The weight of a diamond is measured in carrots.

	Yes
	No

60 Which of the following are face-centered cubic metals at approximately room temperature?

	γ-cerium
	gallium
	aluminum
	germanium
	silicon
	lead
	aluminum

61 Yes or No, A carbonate (CO₃) usually occurs with an anion.

	Yes
	No

62 Which of the following are metalloids?

	cerium
	gallium
	aluminum
	germanium
	silicon
	lead
	boron

63 True or False, Carpathite is an carbonide element.

	TRUE
	FALSE

64 Which of the following are lanthanide metals?

	cerium
	yttrium
	aluminum
	protactinium
	lutetium
	lead
	neodymium

65 Yes or No, Abelsonites contain more carbon than hartites.

	Yes
	No

66 Which of the following are heavy metals?

	vanadium
	mercury
	aluminum
	thallium
	barium
	lead
	bismuth

67 Yes or No, Carbonate minerals are chalcogen minerals.

	Yes
	No

68 Which of the following are body-centered cubic metals?

	vanadium
	molybdenum
	aluminum
	silver
	barium
	francium
	radium

69 True or False, Emplectite has the chemical formula CuBiS₂. It contains the chalcogen bismuth.

	TRUE
	FALSE

70 Which of the following are body-centered cubic metals?

	vanadium
	molybdenum
	aluminum
	silver
	barium
	francium
	radium

71 True or False, Emmonsite, or durdenite, has the formula Fe₂(TeO₃)₃·2H₂O. It is a tellurate mineral.

	TRUE
	FALSE

72 Which of the following are alkaline earth metals?

	calcium
	beryllium
	aluminum
	tungsten
	rubidium
	francium
	technetium

73 Yes or No, Enargite (Cu₃AsS₄) is an arsenate.

	Yes
	No

74 Which of the following are siliconide metals?

	silicon
	beryllium
	aluminum
	carbon
	rubidium
	copper
	technetium

75 True or False, Carpathite is a chalcogen mineral.

	TRUE
	FALSE

76 Which of the following are alkali metals?

	lithium
	magnesium
	yttrium
	scandium
	rubidium
	copper
	technetium

77 Yes or No, Silicon carbide contains one chalcogen.

	Yes
	No

78 Which of the following are transition metals?

	lithium
	magnesium
	yttrium
	scandium
	iron
	copper
	technetium

79 Yes or No, Phosphate minerals are also chalcogen minerals.

	Yes
	No

80 Which of the following are actinide metals?

	lead
	copper
	actinium
	neptunium
	roentgenium
	uranium
	thorium

Hypotheses

Main article: Hypotheses

1. Metal-based minerals make up most of the surface compositions of rocky-objects.

See also

• Minerals/Actinides/Quiz
• Minerals/Astronomy/Quiz
• Minerals/Blues/Quiz
• Minerals/Carbonides/Quiz
• Minerals/Chalcogens/Quiz
• Minerals/Halogens/Quiz
• Minerals/Ices/Black ices/Quiz
• Minerals/Ices/Brittle ices/Quiz
• Minerals/Metalloids/Quiz
• Minerals/Metals/Alkaline earths/Quiz
• Minerals/Metals/Alkalis/Quiz
• Minerals/Metals/Body-centered cubics/Quiz
• Minerals/Metals/Precious/Quiz
• Minerals/Metals/Quiz
• Mineralogy/Quiz
• Minerals/Quiz
• Minerals/Silicates/Quiz
• Minerals/Transuranics/Quiz
• Mining geology/Quiz
• Volcanoes/Volcanic minerals/Quiz

External links

• International Astronomical Union
• NASA's National Space Science Data Center
• The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System

{{Radiation astronomy resources}}