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This dog needs regular exersize. This will discontinue the nervous chewing and scratching.
One could purchase a used cat scratching post at a flea market, yard sale, or a swap meet. One could also check the classified advertisements in their local newspaper.
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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.
Mineral hardness is tested on a glass plate or usually a finger nail.
The Moh's scale is used to test the hardness of a mineral. It will be tested by a fingernail scratching it.
Most likely you would be testing to see if the mineral was harder or softer than the nail.
The tests you can do is the streak test, the luster test,the finger nail test(which is scratching it ti see if its hard or not).
no is not a mineral
It is called a streak and its purpose is to find the hardness of the mineral.
This is diamond.
DimondDiamond.
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