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2. Sandstone - Wikipedia

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   Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, ... Because of the hardness of individual grains, ...

3. 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.

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

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   Mohs hardness of materials (data page) Vickers hardness test; Brinell scale This page was last edited on ...

5. Greywacke - Wikipedia

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   Greywacke or graywacke (German grauwacke, signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness (6–7 on Mohs scale), dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or sand-size lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix.

6. Concretion - Wikipedia

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   Concretions vary in shape, hardness and size, ... are found associated with sandstone outcrops of the Frontier Formation in northeast Utah and central Wyoming.

7. Sand - Wikipedia

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   Arkose is a sand or sandstone with considerable feldspar content, derived from weathering and erosion of a (usually nearby) granitic rock outcrop. Some sands contain magnetite, chlorite, glauconite, or gypsum. Sands rich in magnetite are dark to black in color, as are sands derived from volcanic basalts and obsidian.

8. Hardness - Wikipedia

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   When testing coatings, scratch hardness refers to the force necessary to cut through the film to the substrate. The most common test is Mohs scale, which is used in mineralogy. One tool to make this measurement is the sclerometer. Another tool used to make these tests is the pocket hardness tester. This tool consists of a scale arm with ...

9. Orthoclase - Wikipedia

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   Orthoclase is one of the ten defining minerals of the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, on which it is listed as having a hardness of 6. NASA's Curiosity rover discovery of high levels of orthoclase in Martian sandstones suggested that some Martian rocks may have experienced complex geological processing, such as repeated melting. [9]