Chemical hand warmers popular with skiers and snowboarders produce heat when they are removed from their airtight plastic wrappers. they utilize the oxidation of iron to form iron(iii) oxide according to the reaction:

Pegmatites are igneous rocks in which the individual minerals are very large. typically, the minerals are all light-colored quartz, feldspar and muscovite. if you were given a black and white photograph of a pegmatite in a quarry (where the rock has been blasted and broken), what physical properties could you use to identify those three minerals in this hypothetical photo? describe each mineral and the specific diagnostic properties. be specific.