FORESTRY
SOIL SCIENCE
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Question
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What would you use to determine the hardness of a mineral?
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color tiles
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streak test
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Mohs Scale
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weight scale
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Mohs Hardness Scale is used as a convenient way to help identify minerals. A mineral’s hardness is a measure of its relative resistance to scratching, measured by scratching the mineral against another substance of known hardness on the Mohs Hardness Scale.
Detailed explanation-2: -A Mohs Hardness Test Kit is a tool set of picks allowing you to obtain a qualitative relativity for the hardness of the minerals or rocks you are testing.
Detailed explanation-3: -The mineral hardness scale of Mohs is based on the ability of one natural mineral sample to visibly scratch another mineral. All different minerals are the samples of matter used by Mohs.
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