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What is a characteristic of hardness in science?

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The ability to resist being scratched or hardness is one of the most useful properties for identifying minerals.

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The ability to resist being scratched—or hardness—is one of the most useful properties for identifying minerals. Hardness is determined by the ability of one mineral to scratch another.

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