Hardness
- Hardness is another important physical property of minerals.
- Hardness is a measure of the mineral's resistance to being scratched.
- How can hardness be used to identify minerals?
-German scientist Friedrich Mohs asked himself this question in 1812. He developed a scale of ten minerals with a hardness value of 1 to 10.
- Hardness is a measure of the mineral's resistance to being scratched.
- How can hardness be used to identify minerals?
-German scientist Friedrich Mohs asked himself this question in 1812. He developed a scale of ten minerals with a hardness value of 1 to 10.
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