Sclerometer
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Sclerometer
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The sclerometer, also known as the Turner-sclerometer, is an instrument used by metallurgists, material scientists and mineralogists to measure the scratch hardness of materials. It was invented in 1896 by Thomas Turner (1861–1951), the first Professor of metallurgy in Britain, at the University of Birmingham. The Turner-Sclerometer test consists of measuring the amount of load required to make a scratch. In test a weighted diamond point is drawn, once forward and once backward, over the smooth
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Instrument used to measure the hardness of a material
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerometer
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2024-02-05T19:43:51Z
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