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Any mineral with roughly a hardness of 6 or more on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness could scratch glass, which is roughly 5.5 on the Mohs scale. Some minerals that could scratch glass would be quartz, topaz, corundum, and diamond.
Diamond will scratch anything.
A few minerals that do not scratch glass come to mind . . . talc, asbestos, mica, for instance.
the cleavage for pyrite is cubic
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Any mineral with roughly a hardness of 6 or more on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness could scratch glass, which is roughly 5.5 on the Mohs scale. Some minerals that could scratch glass would be quartz, topaz, corundum, and diamond.
Diamond will scratch anything.
A few minerals that do not scratch glass come to mind . . . talc, asbestos, mica, for instance.
the cleavage for pyrite is cubic
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It can be scratched by a diamond, corundum, topaz, and quartz.
topaz
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No. The hardness of serpentine is 3-4.5, whereas a hardness of at least 7 is needed to scratch glass.