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Use for questions about designing, manufacturing or synthesizing engineered materials or about the properties of specific materials. Questions concerning common construction materials, such as wood, steel or masonry do not need to use this tag; use the more specific tag instead.
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What type of material is this?
But if you are really curious about it and wanna go deeper you can try a scientific approach:
a) You could probably assume it is a metal, although there are way too many engineered/composite materials … Use known materials and see which ones it can scratch and which ones can scratch it.
c) Check whether it is a magnetic material, there is also a spark test for metals, look it up
But even with this approach …