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		<title>Gemstone Identification: MOHS SCALE OF MINERAL HARDNESS</title>
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The scale goes from 1 to 10. Diamond is at the top of the scale, with a rating of 10, Talc is the softest, with a rating of 1. You can use minerals of known hardness to determine the relative hardness of any other mineral.

 A mineral of a given hardness will scratch a mineral of a lower number. For example one of your fingernail(2) can scratch a talc(1) specimen or with a broken glass(5)
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