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    German chemist and mineralogist. He was the creator of the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Mohs also introduced a classification of the crystal forms in...
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    contains: topaz — Mohs 8, quartz — Mohs 7, orthoclase — Mohs 6, plagioclase — Mohs 6–6.5, mica — Mohs 2–4). Despite its lack of precision, the Mohs scale is relevant...
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  • Mohs or MoHS can refer to: Friedrich Mohs, a 19th-century German geologist who developed: Mohs scale, a scale used in materials science to describe hardness...
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  • quantify materials by scratch tests was by mineralogist Friedrich Mohs in 1812 (see Mohs scale). The Mohs scale is based on relative scratch hardness of different...
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    provided an enthusiastic and attentive audience. Werner's students Friedrich Mohs (who was in 1818 also successor to Werner's chair at the Freiberg Mining...
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    banker Jakob Friedrich van der Nüll, was by far larger and much more precious, even to such a degree that the famous professor Friedrich Mohs of Freiberg...
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    Mauguin William Hallowes Miller Friedrich Mohs Paul Niggli Louis Pasteur Arthur Lindo Patterson Max Perutz Friedrich Reinitzer Hugo Rietveld Jean-Baptiste...
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    Stanley Robert Mitchell (1881–1963) Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794–1863) Friedrich Mohs (1773–1839) Jean-André Mongez (1750–1788) Otto Mügge (1858–1932) Alexandra...
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    (1772–1842), metallurgist, chemist Friedrich Mohs (1773–1839), Mineralogist, creator of the Mohssche Härteskala Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797–1873), geologist...
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    : 97–113 : 39–53  Hardness is determined by comparison with other minerals. In the Mohs scale, a standard set of minerals are numbered in order of increasing hardness...
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