Properties of Minerals: Hardness
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- Hardness is a mineral's resistance to scratching. A harder mineral will scratch a softer mineral, and two minerals of the same hardness will scratch each other. Hardness is meas…
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- The Mohs Scale The property of hardness has historically been measured according to the Mohs scale, which was created in 1824 by the Austrian mineralogist Friedrich Mohs. Mohs b…
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