contestada

With regard to minerals, hardness refers to ____________. as. the ability to resist being scratched by other substances
b. the ability to resist breaking when being struck with a hammer
c. the ability to resist chemical reactions with other substances
d. an absence of cleavage

Respuesta :

celai
The answer is, Hardness brings up to as the ability to resist being scratched by other substances with regards to mineral. The hardness of a mineral is stately in contradiction of the scale by the judgment of the hardest mineral that the given mineral can scratch, and/or the softest material that can scratch the specified mineral. The gradation of hardness is determined through noticing the reasonable affluence or strain which one mineral is scratched by a different one.