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Mohs' scale

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Mohs' scale /məʊz/

▶noun a scale of hardness used in classifying minerals.

– origin C19: named after the German mineralogist Friedrich Mohs.

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