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What do scientists use to determine mineral hardness?
The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is generally used to determine the hardness of a mineral. The Mohs scale rates the ability of mineral to scratch or be scratched by another mineral.
Which mineral has a hardness of 2?
Gypsum is the mineral listed at 2 on the Mohs hardness scale.
Moh's hardness scale is relative measure of what physical property?
Hardness of a mineral - the answer in in the title "Moh's hardness scale".
A mineral with a hardness of 6?
Orthoclase feldspar is 6 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.
What is fluorite on the mohs hardness scale?
Fluorite is the number 4 mineral on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, above calcite and below apatite.
What is the Name given to the scale of hardness of a mineral?
It is called the Moh's scale.
What is the hardness of the ruby?
Ruby, a variety of the mineral corundum, has a hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.
What do scientists use to determine mineral hardness?
The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is generally used to determine the hardness of a mineral. The Mohs scale rates the ability of mineral to scratch or be scratched by another mineral.
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.
Mineral hardness is measured from 1 to 10 on a scale called the what?
It's called the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.
Which mineral has a hardness of 2?
Gypsum is the mineral listed at 2 on the Mohs hardness scale.
What mineral has hardness of 6?
Orthoclase feldspar is 6 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.
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.
What is the harness of a mineral if it scratches a penny but will not scratch glass?
Google "Mohs hardness scale". This is a relative hardness scale which compares one mineral's hardness to another. (It is between 3.5 and 5.5 on the Mohs hardness scale)
What are methods of determining the hardness of a mineral?
moh's hardness scale and??
What scale is used to find a mineral's hardness?
the mohs hardness scale
Why do rocks have different hardness?
it has to do with the hardness of the mineral which can be found by moh's scale of hardness
