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Hardness Lesson/Tutorial Scratch your fingernail on a piece of chalk and then on your desk.  You see a scratch in the chalk but not on the desk because it is much harder.  As a ruler measures length a scratch or a dent is a measure of hardness.  Special equipment is used to measure hardness of different materials.
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