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Question about your edit on the Wikipedia page for “Mohs scale”
Hi, I'm contacting you because this IP address is credited with a particular revision/edit of the “Mohs scale” Wikipedia page, and I have a question about that revision. For context on why I’m interested in your revision of the “Mohs scale” page, my friend and I are trying to settle a disagreement about material hardness. I agree with a statement that you added to this page (quoted below), but I’m looking for a rock-solid reference to support it.

In your revision that I spoke of above, you added the following statement: “Frequently, materials that are lower on the Mohs scale can create microscopic, non-elastic dislocations on materials that have a higher Mohs number". A reference was also provided, not at the end of this sentence, but at the end of the paragraph: “Geels, Kay. "The True Microstructure of Materials", pp. 5–13 in Materialographic Preparation from Sorby to the Present. Struers A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark - archived Mar 7 2016”.

My question: Is this reference intended to support the sentence that I quoted, or is it meant to support another part of the paragraph (perhaps just the last sentence of the paragraph)?

If this reference is meant to support the sentence that I quoted, then I have a follow-up question: I read through the provided reference, and it appears to not mention anything related to the sentence that I quoted. Is there perhaps something in that reference that I missed (where it does mention something related to softer materials on the Mohs scale being capable of damaging {but not "scratching"} harder materials)? Or is this reference a typo, and was a different reference meant to be provided instead?

So sorry for long message, but any help would be massively appreciated! And thank you for contributing to Wikipedia; I don’t know where the world would be without contributors like yourself. SpaghettiHat1 (talk) 16:10, 26 January 2023 (UTC)