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What does mohs scale not measure?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Mohs measures relative hardness (quartz is harder than orthoclase; topaz is harder than quartz), but it doesn't accurately tell HOW MUCH harder something is than something else. There is another scale, called the Rockwell, which does this.

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