Halite is hard. It can be scratched by a steel file and a knife with difficulty
Halite, with a hardness of 2.5 on the Moh's Scale, is very soft.
Not very. Halite has a Mohs hardness of 2.5.
Halite is a very soft mineral on the Mohs Hardness Scale. Generally around 2-2.5. The type of cleavage is cubic, meaning 3 directions at 90 degrees. A very diagnostic property is that it has a salty taste. Also halite tends to be transparent.
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Halite, also known as rock salt, has a hardness of 2-2.5 on the Mohs scale. It is a relatively soft mineral that can be easily scratched with a fingernail or a pocket knife.
it is hard and sometimes soft
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soft you can bend and hard you can not
why metallic solids are soft to hard
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