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Which mineral on Mohs hardness scale can be scratched by your finger?
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Talc (1 on the Mohs Hardness Scale) can be scratched by a fingernail.
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Scientists use this to determine a minerals resistance to being scratched?
A mineral's resistance to being scratched is known as it's hardness. You can determine hardness by scratching it with another material whose hardness is already known. If it can be scratched, then the hardness is lower. If the unknown leaves a scratch on the known material, then its hardness is higher.
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 can be scratched by a fingernail?
Talc is one such mineral and as such is a reference mineral in the Mohs Hardness Scale.
What is the definition for the hardness of a mineral?
Hardness - measure of how easily a mineral is scratched.
Does talc have hardness?
Tals, a mineral, has a hardness of 1 on the Mohs scale of relative mineral hardness, a 1 being the one able to be scratched by the remaining nine minerals. It's soft.
Scientists use this to determine a minerals resistance to being scratched?
A mineral's resistance to being scratched is known as it's hardness. You can determine hardness by scratching it with another material whose hardness is already known. If it can be scratched, then the hardness is lower. If the unknown leaves a scratch on the known material, then its hardness is higher.
Measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched which is determined b the arrangement of of a minerals atom?
Hardness is the measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched.
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.
If a mineral is a 6 on the mohs scale what can it be scracted by?
A mineral with a hardness of 6 on the Mohs scale can be scratched by anything harder than a 6, such as minerals with a hardness of 7 or higher. It will not be scratched by minerals with a hardness of 5 or lower.
What is used to determine a mineral's resistance to being scratched?
The Mohs mineral hardness scale.
Measure how easily a mineral can be scratched?
Mohs hardness scale measures that.
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.
If a mineral scratches calcite but is scratched by apatite what is the minerals hardness?
Somewhere between 3 and 5 on the Mohs scale of relative mineral hardness...
Scientist use this to determine a mineral's resistance to being scratched?
Mohs scale of hardness
Which mineral can be scratched by a fingernail?
Talc is one such mineral and as such is a reference mineral in the Mohs Hardness Scale.
What is a mineral's ability to scratch another mineral?
A mineral's resistance to being scratched (or when a force is applied) is called its hardness.There are different measurements of hardness: scratch hardness, indentation hardness, and rebound hardness. A material's hardness depends on ductility, elastic stiffness, plasticity, strain, strength, toughness, viscoelasticity, and viscosity.
How is mineral hardness tested?
Mineral hardness is tested on a glass plate or usually a finger nail.
