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The Mohs scale is used to identify the mineral property of hardness only.

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How do you identify a mineral or crystal?

You can use hardness(Moh's Hardness Scale), luster, shape, and fracture to identify quartz.


The Mohs scale helps scientists to identify the 'blank' of a mineral?

The Mohs scale is used to measure the hardness of minerals.


Mohs' scale helps scientists to identify the of a mineral?

B. Hardness


What do scientists use to determine mineral hardness?

Scientists use the Mohs scale of mineral hardness to determine the relative hardness of minerals. This scale ranks minerals from 1 (softest) to 10 (hardest) based on their ability to scratch or be scratched by other minerals. By performing a scratch test, scientists can identify a mineral's hardness by comparing it to known minerals on the Mohs scale.


What mineral does scientists use the mohs scale to identify?

Hardness, how easily it can be scratched


What are the the tests scientists use to identify minerals?

Hardness test based on the Mohs Scale of relative mineral hardness, specific gravity, streak test for mineral color, classification of mineral crystal system, chemical analysis.


To determine the hardness of a mineral what do scientists use.?

the mohs scale


What would you use the Mohs scale for hardness for?

to identify a mineral


Mohs scale helps scientists to identify what kind of material?

the hardness of minerals.


Is halite a nano-scale micro-scale or macro-scale?

Halite is considered a macro-scale mineral. It is a mineral form of salt (sodium chloride) that typically occurs in large, visible crystal formations rather than at the nano- or micro-scale levels.


What is the name of the scale we use to identify minerals?

The scale used to identify minerals is called the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. It ranks minerals from 1 (softest) to 10 (hardest) based on their ability to scratch or be scratched by other minerals.


What is the use of the hardness scale?

Minerals have a fairly specific range of hardness, based on the Mohs hardness scale. The Mohs scale is based on the ability of a mineral to be scratched, or scratch, another mineral. Using the Mohs scale to determine mineral hardness is one test that can be used to help identify one mineral from others.