All tempered glass passes the 9H scratch test, so retailers technically aren't lying about 9H hardness. Typical glass sits at 5.5 on the Mohs scale, with tempered glass usually around 7.

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7 went through JerryRigEverything’s traditional durability test, which includes scratch, burn, and bend tests. The new Fold ...

Geologists do it according to the Mohs Scale of Hardness. There. That's your "hardness" joke for the post. Now down to business, with the hardest (and softest) scale there is.

The iPhone 5s screen with Gorilla Glass 3 was rated at a Mohs hardness of 6.8. The Mohs rating of the iPhone 6 with Apple's ion-hardened glass is not known, but does scratch more readily than the ...

The hardness of a material is rated in Mohs, where talc is rated as 1 Mohs and diamond 10 Mohs. Glass ranks around 5.5 to 7 Mohs, but sapphire crystal has a hardness of 9 Mohs, making it only ...

Many glass screen protectors boast about having "9H hardness." Some people think this refers to the Mohs hardness scale, which compares the scratch resistance of different minerals. This isn't the ...

The Mohs scale, as it is known, uses 10 minerals of increasing hardness as reference points. It rates talc as 1 and goes all the way up to diamond at a 10 rating.