Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Follow-up from 02/06/14


Winter Wren

From the Ohio Bird Banding website




Bagworm Moth

From Wikipedia


Moh's Hardness Scale

Hardness

Mineral

Description

1
Talc
Fingernail scratches it easily.
2
Gypsum
Fingernail scratches it.
3
Calcite
Copper penny scratches it.
4
Fluorite
Steel knife scratches it easily.
5
Apatite
Steel knife scratches it.
6
Feldspar
Steel knife does not scratch it easily, but scratches glass.
7
Quartz
Hardest common mineral. It scratches steel and glass easily.
8
Topaz
Harder than any common mineral.
9
Corundum
It scratches Topaz.
10
Diamond
It is the hardest of all minerals.
From http://library.thinkquest.org/J002289/mohs.html 

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