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Friedrich Mohs (29 January, 1773 - 29 September 1839) was a Germanmineralogist.

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Scientist Mohs was born in Germany.

He was a minerologist who studied minerals, chemistry, physics, and mathematics.

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He moved to Austria in 1801 where he found a job identifying minerals in a collection that belonged to a rich banker. He used physical characteristics of the crystals to determine what they were. One of the characteristics he used to identify minerals was their hardness.

He knew that some of the minerals could scratch others and that if a mineral could make a scratch on another, it must be harder than the mineral that was scratched.

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He found that all minerals could scratch the mineral talc, so it must be very soft. He also found that diamonds were so hard that no other minerals could scratch them.

In 1812, Mohs made a scale from 1 to 10 to describe mineral hardness.

He gave harder minerals larger numbers and softer min