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What is the hardness of rhyolite?

depends a rock made from lava is an igneous rock.


How can you find the hardness of the rock?

The Mohs hardness scale is a commonly used hardness scale for minerals. It is on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the softest and 10 being the hardest). You can purchase Mohs hardness kits which has a variety of minerals with known hardnesses that you can test your rock against. What you will do is try and scratch your rock with the minerals in the kit. If the mineral in the kit removes material from your rock then your rock is softer. Continue up or down the scale until you find where your rock lies, probably in between two rocks. It will be difficult to measure if your rock is something like sandstone or has an inconsistent composition because certain parts of the rock will be harder than others and sandstone has a very loose bond. Talc (1 on the scale) is one of the softest minerals and diamond is the hardest (10 on the scale). Onyx is also very hard (9 on the scale). If you don't have a scale then you can use your fingernail which is approximately 2.5, a penny is approximately a 3.5, glass is a 5.5, and a knife is a 7.


What is the hardness of Breccia on the mohs scale?

Breccia does not have a specific hardness on the Mohs scale because it is a type of rock composed of different minerals. The hardness of breccia would vary depending on the hardness of the minerals present in its composition.


What is Oklahoma rose rock on the hardness scale?

Oklahoma rose rock has a hardness of around 2.5-3 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. This means that it is relatively soft compared to other minerals and can be easily scratched by harder materials.


What is the hardness of serpentine rock?

Serpentine rock has a wide range of hardness depending on its composition, but it typically falls between 2.5 and 4 on the Mohs hardness scale.

Related Questions

What property do mineralogists test when using the Mohs' Scale?

This scale is correctly called the Mohs scale. Scientists use this scale to measure a rock's hardness or softness. They can discover how hard a mineral or rocks is and drill in to it and find out more about it.


What is the name of the scale used to determine hardnes of a minera?

It is called "Mohs Hardness Scale" and it measures what the hardness of a rock or mineral. Legardeboy.


What is the rocks hardness called?

The hardness of a rock is called its "Mohs scale hardness." This scale ranks minerals and rocks based on their scratch resistance, with diamond being the hardest at 10 and talc being the softest at 1.


How do you test the property of HARDNESS?

Actually yes, testing a hardness of a rock can be done at another rock to see if it is harder than another rock. You scratch another rock to measure, or you can use a thing designed like a pen with a number (moh's hardness scale) of the rock for it.


Where does salt fall in the MOHs hardness scale?

where is rock salt on the moths hardness scale


Which property is a measure of a minerals resistance to being scratched?

A rock's hardness is its resistance to scratching or abrasion. This is commonly measured using the MOH's scale of hardness.


What rock with hardness on the Moh's scale?

Diamond


What is the hardness of rhyolite?

depends a rock made from lava is an igneous rock.


What is the hardness of coal on the Mohs hardness scale?

Coal, as an organic sedimentary rock, is not determined to have a hardness on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.


What rock has a hardness of 1 on the mohs scale?

Talc


What rock has the hardness 1 the moh's scale?

talc


What is a rock with hardness ' 10' on moh's scale?

Diamond