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Correlation of the Mohs's scale of hardness with the Vickers's hardness numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

E. Wilfred Taylor
E. Wilfred Taylor*
Affiliation:
Messrs. Cooke, Troughton & Simms, Ltd., York
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Mineralogists have long been accustomed to describe hardness with the aid of a scale devised by Friedrich Mohs, who lived from 1773 to 1839. The test is qualitative, each mineral in the scale being capable of scratching those that precede it, but the ten minerals have held their ground as a useful representative series with which it is now interesting to compare another method of estimating hardness.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 206 , September 1949 , pp. 718 - 721
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1949

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References

page 718 note 1 Taylor, E. W., Micro-hardness testing of metals. Journ. Inst. Metals, 1948, vol. 74, p. 493.Google Scholar

page 718 note 2 Taylor, E. W., Nature, 1949, vol. 163, p. 323.CrossRefGoogle Scholar