Very hard mineral used as an abrasive Crossword Clue

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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% CORUNDUM Very hard mineral used as an abrasive (8)
4% EMERY Abrasive mineral (5) Universal Aug 27, 2025
3% GRANITE Managed in holiday cottage? It's very hard (7) The Times Cryptic Oct 16, 2025
3% RARE Very hard to find (4) Newsday Oct 15, 2025
3% SCOUR Clean abrasively (5) The Telegraph Cross Atlantic Oct 13, 2025
3% GRAZE Skin abrasion (5) The Times Concise Oct 4, 2025
3% MOHS Mineral-hardness scale name (4) Eugene Sheffer Sep 30, 2025
3% GYPSUM Mineral used in plaster of Paris (6) Puzzler Backwords Sep 26, 2025
3% TALC Mineral with a Mohs hardness of 1 (4) New York Times Aug 23, 2025
3% MOHSSCALE Mineral hardness index (4,5) (9)
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