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2. Tiger's eye - Wikipedia

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   Tiger's eye (also called tiger eye) is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown colour and a silky lustre.As members of the quartz group, tiger's eye and the related blue-coloured mineral hawk's eye gain their silky, lustrous appearance from the parallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that have mostly turned into limonite.

3. Hardnesses of the elements (data page) - Wikipedia

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   Mohs hardness [1] Vickers hardness ... gold: 2.5: 188–216: 188–245: 189 80: Hg: ... Mohs scale of mineral hardness; Mohs hardness of materials (data page) ...

4. Mohs scale - Wikipedia

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   Mohs hardness kit, containing one specimen of each mineral on the ten-point hardness scale The Mohs scale ( / m oʊ z / MOHZ ) of mineral hardness is a qualitative ordinal scale , from 1 to 10, characterizing scratch resistance of minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material.

5. Quartz - Wikipedia

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   Quartz is the mineral defining the value of 7 on the Mohs scale of hardness, ... Tiger's eye: Fibrous gold, ... between cut citrine and yellow topaz ...

6. Topaz - Wikipedia

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   Topaz is a silicate mineral made of aluminum and fluorine with the chemical formula Al 2 Si O 4 (F, OH) 2.It is used as a gemstone in jewelry and other adornments. Common topaz in its natural state is colorless, though trace element impurities can make it pale blue or golden brown to yellow-orange. [7]

7. Scratch hardness - Wikipedia

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   The first scientific attempt to quantify materials by scratch tests was by mineralogist Friedrich Mohs in 1812 (see Mohs scale). [3] [4] The Mohs scale is based on relative scratch hardness of different materials; with talc assigned a value of 1 and diamond assigned a value of 10. [5] Mohs's scale had two limitations: it was not linear, and ...