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So they’ve made a new form of carbon, which may actually be harder than Diamond.
by Synaesthesia 6y ago
So they’ve made a new form of carbon, which may actually be harder than Diamond.
- ncmncm 6y ago"Lonsdaleite, which is predicted to be 58 percent harder than regular diamonds" We have had lonsdaleite from meteorite sites (and all over the world at 12,900 ya and 66 mya), but apparently not big enough to measure hardness?
- jleahy 6y agoBig enough to measure hardness, and we've been able to make it ourselves since the 60s, but in measurements it's always less hard than diamond. Only in computer simulation is it actually harder. I guess they glossed over that bit as it makes it sounds less exciting.