Slate
At a glance
- Type
- Rock
- Group
- Metamorphic rock
- Crystal system
- None (a rock)
- Hardness
- Medium (3 to 5.5)
- Colour
- Grey, Black
- Lustre
- Dull
- Use
- Building
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Children once wrote their lessons on small slates with chalk, long before paper became cheap.
- Good billiard tables have a slab of slate under the cloth because slate stays flat and smooth.
Could you guess it from clues?
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q207079 · All stones · All entries