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Q: What type of igneous rock make sharp tools for cutting and scraping?
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What three ways has granite been used throughout history?

For building materials, tools (cutting and scraping), and cleaning.


What qualities of igneous rocks have long made them useful for tools and building?

Extrusive igneous rock: Obsidian. Quality of conchoidal fracture making them easily workable to a sharp edge for cutting tools or weapon points. Intrusive igneous rock: Granite. Quality of durability due to high crystalline quartz and feldspar mineral mix. Also beauty. Harder to work, but a great, long lasting building stone.


Why are Igneous Rocks used in tools?

Obsidian when knapped would have the sharpest cutting tool edge of any igneous rock.


When early people made the first tools what did they use them for?

Cutting meat, skin, bone and wood. Occasionally drilling holes. Carving, scraping patterns.


Why the tools meant for cutting and piercing always have sharp edges?

Because smaller the area greater will be the pressure


What qualities of igneous rocks have long made them useful for tools igneous rock?

Extrusive igneous rock: Obsidian. Quality of conchoidal fracture making them easily workable to a sharp edge for cutting tools or weapon points. Intrusive igneous rock: Granite. Quality of durability due to high crystalline quartz and feldspar mineral mix. Also beauty. Harder to work, but a great, long lasting building stone.


In ancient Egypt cutting tools were made of copper or?

Mainly copper but also sharp rocks were used as knifes


Why the tools meant fo r cutting and piercing always have sharp edges?

The sharper the edges, the easier is the cutting and piercing, and will take less effort. Blunt tools take more effort and are liable to slip, causing an accident.


Why is diamond used for cutting glass?

Diamond is the hardest natural mineral. Industrial diamonds -- about 80% of all diamonds mined -- enhance tools that require sharp, precise and detailed accuracy. Tools for cutting glass are tipped with industrial diamond material.


Name the classifications on lathe cutting tools?

Smooth masonry tools. Groove tool. Drilling tools. The cutting tool. Screw cutting tools.


Cutting tools and machine tools is the same?

No. Machine tools use cutting tools to perform its operations.


In the historical term what does Knapping mean?

A knapper is a person who shapes flint or other stone through the process of knapping, Knapping is the process of making stone tools, mainly flint, by hitting the flint in such a way to produce a sharp edge for cutting or scraping. The knapper would use a harder stone than flint in this process, this was called a hammerstone.