"Different minerals have different characteristics. Scientists classify minerals based
on their shape, color, and hardness."
Why might the author have mentioned shape, color, and hardness?
A
to give some examples of the different characteristics of minerals
B
to persuade readers to classify minerals in the same way that scientists do
to compare the characteristics of minerals to the characteristics of
scientists
to show the order in which scientists classify minerals

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Read the excerpt from "death by black hole."albert einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916, provides the insight to understand the bizarre structureof space and time in a high-gravity environment. later research by the american physicist john a. wheeler, and others, to formulate a vocabulary as well as the mathematical tools to describe and predict what a black hole will do toits surroundings.read the excerpt from "man listening to disc."and i bow deeply to thelonious monkfor figuring out a wayto motorize or whatever-his huge pianoso he could be with us today.these excerpts are similar because both texts

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