One usually uses numbers for mass and weight, and adjectives for color and texture.
There is a long discussion of adjectives for texture at
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=8259
what may describe the color,texture,mass,or weight of a material.
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The description of colour and texture for a material depends very much on the field/activity and material in question. To a geologist the word texture has a particular meaning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_(geology)
In chemistry you might describe a colour as mauve but if you were in the dying industry you might assign a number to each mauve see:
http://www.needlepointers.com/displaypage.aspx?ArticleID=32914&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.cross-stitch-centre.co.uk%2facatalog%2fanchor_stranded_cotton_colours.html
Remember also that mass and weight are different.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_(geology)
In chemistry you might describe a colour as mauve but if you were in the dying industry you might assign a number to each mauve see:
http://www.needlepointers.com/displaypage.aspx?ArticleID=32914&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.cross-stitch-centre.co.uk%2facatalog%2fanchor_stranded_cotton_colours.html
Remember also that mass and weight are different.
physical properties