No, loses less water than usually than think
The primary difficulty is the fact that we do not know all of the organisms that currently exist in the world along with those that existed in the past.
It is extremely useful for geologists, because most specimens of a given mineral are very close to the same hardness. ... So, we can conclude that not all the rocks are hard, and the hardness of rocks depends on how the atoms of the rock's minerals are bound to each other and how they are arranged.