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Hardness, how easily it can be scratched
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What was friedrich mohs contribution in helping us to identify minerals?
Mohs introduced the scale of mineral hardness - Mohs scale - named for him. Ten minerals whose hardness is known are ordered on a scale ranging from 1 (http://www.answers.com/topic/talc?initiator=WANSalc) to 10 (diamond),
A scale used to measure the hardness of rocks?
The Mohs scale is used to determine the relative hardness of minerals.
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.
A minerals hardness with respect to other minerals can be determined by?
scratching the mineral acrros a glass plate
What is the second hardest mineral on the Mohs scale after diamond?
On the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, corundum is listed as a 9, below diamond which has a rating of 10.
Does the Mohs scale help scientists identify the crystal shape of a mineral?
The Mohs scale is used to identify the mineral property of hardness only.
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?
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.
To determine the hardness of a mineral what do scientists use.?
the mohs scale
What would you use the Mohs scale of hardness for?
to identify a mineral
What would you use the Mohs scale for hardness for?
to identify a mineral
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.
Mohs scale helps scientists to identify what kind of material?
the hardness of minerals.
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 scale is used to find a mineral's hardness?
the mohs hardness scale
What system did Friedrich Mohs invent?
Friedrich Mohs is famous for creating the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. He formulated a scale of one to ten and assigned each mineral a value. This eventually became the basis for the Mohs scale.
