no is not a mineral
well, every mineral you can imagine is in a nail file. Also there is 4,320 types of rock in just one nail file!
Calcium
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well, every mineral you can imagine is in a nail file. Also there is 4,320 types of rock in just one nail file!
Scratching a mineral with a nail is a test of hardness. It helps determine the relative hardness of the mineral compared to known substances on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.
Most likely you would be testing to see if the mineral was harder or softer than the nail.
Calcite is a mineral that can be easily scratched by a steel nail due to its relatively low hardness compared to steel.
hardness
hardness
are there minerals in hammers and nails
Scratching a mineral with a nail is a test of hardness. The Mohs scale of mineral hardness ranks minerals from 1 (softest) to 10 (hardest), with talc being the softest and diamond being the hardest. If a mineral can be scratched by a nail (with a hardness of around 2.5), it would be classified as having a hardness lower than 2.5 on the Mohs scale.
acetone and mineral oil.