Yes, you can intentionally foul if you wish. Your opponent would get ball in hand, meaning they can place the cue ball anywhere on the playing surface for their next shot, but sometimes this is the most strategic play. The only caveat would be if you pocket the 8 ball and scratch on the same shot, in which case you would lose the game.
Yes, and a scratch results in loss of game under most rules.
yes and lose all money
noNo other way around
A diamond is the only material that cannot be scratched by any other than itself.
If two rocks cannot scratch each other, then they would have to be of equal hardness. A harder rock can always scratch a softer rock.
Diamond is the hardest mineral and is the only one that can scratch corundum. but in my opinion corundum will scratch corundum any mineral of the same hardness will scratch the other !
Diamond is the hardest naturally occurring mineral and can scratch all other minerals. Talc is the softest of minerals and cannot scratch any other mineral.
Diamond is the hardest naturally occurring mineral and can scratch all other minerals. Talc is the softest of minerals and cannot scratch any other mineral.
The human fingernail can just scratch gypsum, but is softer than all other minerals.
Diamond will scratch all rocks and other minerals, including itself.
All of them
yes.
DIAMOND
Quartz, with a hardness of 7, will scratch calcite, with a hardness of 3.