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Mohs Hardness Scale

The Mohs Hardness Scale is a qualitative ordinal scale that classifies minerals based on their relative resistance to scratching, defined by the ability of a harder mineral to scratch a softer one, using ten reference minerals ranked from hardness 1 (talc) to 10 (diamond).

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Mohs Scale

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The hardness of solids

D. Tabor · Reviews of Physics in Technology · 1970 · 616 citations

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Mohs's Hardness Scale - A Physical Interpretation

D. Tabor · Proceedings of the Physical Society Section B · 1954 · 278 citations

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Microhardness, toughness, and modulus of Mohs scale minerals

Margaret E. Broz, Robert F. Cook, Donna L. Whitney · American Mineralogist · 2006 · 261 citations

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Hardness, toughness, and modulus of some common metamorphic minerals

Donna L. Whitney, Milan Brož, Robert F. Cook · American Mineralogist · 2007 · 138 citations

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Practical hardness scales for metal ion complexes

R. Bruce Martin · Inorganica Chimica Acta · 2002 · 66 citations

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Authors

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  1. AR
    Anthony R. Kampf

    Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, United States

    18 publications · 282 citations

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    F. C. Hawthorne

    University of Manitoba, Canada

    10 publications · 182 citations

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  3. JP
    Jakub Plášil

    FZU ‒ Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czechia

    10 publications · 153 citations

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  4. JM
    Joe Marty

    Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, United States

    10 publications · 155 citations

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    Barbara P. Nash

    University of Utah, United States

    11 publications · 174 citations

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Institutions

160

  1. University of Manitoba

    Winnipeg, Canada

    12 h-index

    30 publications

    550 citations

  2. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

    Los Angeles, United States

    12 h-index

    19 publications

    280 citations

  3. Russian Academy of Sciences

    Moscow, Russia

    10 h-index

    18 publications

    271 citations

  4. FZU ‒ Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

    Prague, Czechia

    10 h-index

    13 publications

    262 citations

  5. University of Utah

    Salt Lake City, United States

    10 h-index

    12 publications

    168 citations

  6. University of Florence

    Florence, Italy

    10 h-index

    15 publications

    330 citations

  7. St Petersburg University

    Saint Petersburg, Russia

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    271 citations

  8. Masaryk University

    Brno, Czechia

    8 h-index

    18 publications

    307 citations

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Venues

  1. American Mineralogist

    32 publications · 1K citations

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  2. The Canadian Mineralogist

    30 publications · 587 citations

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  3. Mineralogical Magazine

    32 publications · 541 citations

    15

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  4. Minerals

    3 publications · 38 citations

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  5. Engineering Science and Technology an International Journal

    JESTECH · 2 publications · 59 citations

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