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Diamonds are one of the hardest materials known. Hardness is how resistant a material is to being scratched by another material. If two samples of metal that appear identical are scratched by a diamond,
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Diamonds are one of the hardest materials known. Hardness is how resistant a material

is to being scratched by another material. If two samples of metal that appear identical
are scratched by a diamond, is that sufficient to determine that they are the same metal?
Why or why not?

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No that would not be sufficient information One because they only used one Diamond while they used two metal meaning that could just be a strong Diamond.
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