These basic properties are vital to the survival of life. Water's polarity and surface tension makes it a powerful solvent for sugars, amino acids, and proteins; water can easily hold and transport substances necessary for life within and outside of living things.
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Geologists use the following tests to distinguish minerals and the rocks they make: hardness, color, streak, luster, cleavage and chemical reaction. A scratch test developed by a German mineralogist Friedrich Mohs in 1822 is used to determine mineral hardness.
