Use the table to answer the question.

Mineral

Hardness

Cleavage/Fracture

Luster

Obsidian

5

Fracture

Vitreous

Halite

2.5

Cubic cleavage

Vitreous

Fluorite

4

Octohedral

Vitreous

An unknown mineral specimen is not scratched by a penny and does not exhibit cleavage. The mineral is most likely to be:

(1 point)
Responses

obsidian
obsidian

halite
halite

fluorite

1 answer

fluorite

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