Explanation:
The moh's scale of hardness provides a succinct way of determining the hardness of minerals. Hardness simply implies the ability of a substance to resist being scratched.
Hardness is a physical property of minerals.
- A hard substance will scratch one that is less harder than it. The mineral with the hardness of 6 will easily scratch the one with the hardness of 4 on the moh's scale.
- With this background knowledge, let us extend our experiment on the minerals to glass plate and a copper penny.
- A glass plate is known to have a hardness of 5.5. It is harder than copper with a hardness of 3 on the moh's scale.
- Using the analogy in the first bullet, the mineral will the hardness of 4 will be able to scratch copper but not the glass plate because the glass plate has a higher hardness.
- The mineral with the hardness of 6 will scratch the copper penny, mineral with hardness of 4 and the glass plate. It has a higher hardness.
- Make use of an unscratched surface in this set up.
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