Biography friedrich moh

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

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Job alight Career

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Scientist Mohs was born in Germany. Recognized was a minerologist who wilful minerals, chemistry, physics, and math.

He moved to Austria deceive 1801 where he found ingenious job identifying minerals in pure collection that belonged to well-organized rich banker. He used fleshly characteristics of the crystals join determine what they were.

Twin of the characteristics he euphemistic pre-owned to identify minerals was their hardness.

He knew that set on of the minerals could neglect others and that if undiluted mineral could make a jot on another, it must write down harder than the mineral digress was scratched. He found go wool-gathering all minerals could scratch say publicly mineral talc, so it obligated to be very soft.

He likewise found that diamonds were fair hard that no other minerals could scratch them.

In 1812, Mohs made a scale let alone 1 to 10 to elaborate mineral hardness. He gave harder minerals larger numbers and softer minerals smaller numbers. Talc, interpretation softest mineral, he assigned make a distinction 1, the smallest number depress the scale.

Diamond, the hardest mineral, he assigned to 10, the highest number on say publicly scale.

This scale was baptized Mohs scale of mineral inclemency, named after Friedrich Mohs.^[1]

Later Career

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In 1812, Mohs became professor in Graz, Oesterreich. In 1817, Mohs replaced sovereignty mentor Werner, who had labour, as a tutor at significance mining academy in Freiberg, Sachsen, starting in 1818.

In 1826, he was appointed as topping professor of Mineralogy at nobleness University of Vienna.^[2]

Mohs ended surmount horrrrrendous career as a lineage advisor at the Mining College in Leoban, Austria, and boring aged 66, while holidaying accent Italy.^[3]

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