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mohs hardness

mohs hardness

mohs hardness

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we dont have any available mohs hardness test laboratory here in our local area,so how can i determine the mohs hardness of our coarse aggregates?

RE: mohs hardness

You could probably get an inexpensive kit from any place that supplies materials for 8th grade Earth Science classes. Try Edmund's Scientific, for starters.

It won't be as accurate as a lab test, but it will get you in the balpark.

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RE: mohs hardness

You can find a Moh's kit in the Forney or Soiltest catalog.

RE: mohs hardness

What's the mineralogy of your coarse aggregate?  If it's quartz then the Mohr's hardness is 7.  If it's limestone (calcite) use 3.  But if it's dolomite you'd be better to use 3.5 or 4.  It talkes a weak solution of HCl to determine the difference between calcite (bubbles readily) and dolomite (bubbles only in knife scratch).  If you have feldspar (plagioclase, orthoclase, microcline, labradorite - wouldn' that be cool looking) use 6.  Bear in mind that a pocket knife will scratch feldspar but not quartz.

Hope that this helps.

f-d

¡papá gordo ain't no madre flaca!

RE: mohs hardness

Use something you know as a gauge...for instance, if you can scratch the aggregate with a piece of ordinary glass, its Mohs hardness is likely less than 5.  If you can scratch it with a common steel knife blade, the Mohs hardness is less than 7.  If you can scratch it with your fingernail, the Mohs hardness is less than 3.  If you can scratch it with your girlfriend's new diamond, the Mohs hardness is less than 10.


Somewhere in there you should be able to get close.

RE: mohs hardness

The trick is getting your girlfriend to let you use the diamond!  They rarely, if ever, take it off.

RE: mohs hardness

Who buys a girlfriend a diamond?  (Or, who dates a girl that has one?)

f-d

¡papá gordo ain't no madre flaca!

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