An instrument used to determine the relative hardness of a material by measuring the pressure required to penetrate the material with a standard diamond stylus.
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sclerometer
An instrument for determining the degree of hardness of a material by the amount of pressure required to scratch it with a diamond point.
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sclerometer
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a measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materials by penetrating them with a stylus that has a diamond point
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sclerometer
The sclerometer (from the Ancient Greek σκλερος meaning "hard") is an instrument used by mineralogists to measure the scratch hardness of materials. It was invented by Turner in 1896.
The instrument is designed to determine the degree of hardness of a given mineral by applying pressure on a moving diamond point until a "scratch" has occurred.
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