Window glass has a hardness of 5.5 on the Moh’s hardness scale, and so could be scratched by feldspar, quartz, topaz, corrundum and diamond. Nearly all precious and semi-precious gems are harder than glass, so scratching glass is no test for a diamomd.
Here’s a reference to Moh’s scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_scale
DarkDesire on February 8th, 2012
NOOOOO there are tons of other rocks and minerals that have the ability to cut glass
(believe me I know…experiments)….
JetSki on February 8th, 2012
No…..many rocks will cut glass
Eli on February 8th, 2012
No, any rock with a hardness greater then that of glass will cut it. If looking on Mohs scale anything above a 7 I think will do the trick
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Wildthing
on February 8th, 2012
Window glass has a hardness of 5.5 on the Moh’s hardness scale, and so could be scratched by feldspar, quartz, topaz, corrundum and diamond. Nearly all precious and semi-precious gems are harder than glass, so scratching glass is no test for a diamomd.
Here’s a reference to Moh’s scale:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_scale
DarkDesire
on February 8th, 2012
NOOOOO there are tons of other rocks and minerals that have the ability to cut glass
(believe me I know…experiments)….
JetSki
on February 8th, 2012
No…..many rocks will cut glass
Eli
on February 8th, 2012
No, any rock with a hardness greater then that of glass will cut it. If looking on Mohs scale anything above a 7 I think will do the trick