Diamond Is No Longer Nature's Hardest Material

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  1. munajadidab

    munajadidab Well-Known Member

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    http://www.itvnews.tv/Sci-Tech/Science/dia...t-material.html

    Diamond will always be a woman’s best friend but the gemstone is no longer the world’s hardest material, according to scientists. Instead, a rare natural substance, called lonsdaleite, which is made from carbon atoms just like diamond, has emerged as 58 per cent harder than the gemstone, according to a report in the New Scientist.
     
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    That's cool, but if it's only formed when meteoroids hit Earth, then there can't be that much of it.
     
  3. Greasy Pete

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    sigh.

    your shotty figures are based on desperate assumptions and shady probabilities.
     
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    sigh.

    your shotty figures are based on desperate assumptions and shady probabilities.
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  5. Water breaks anything.
     
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    Even breaks my back when a back flip off the diving board goes all wrong :huh:
     
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    Neuron Senior Member

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    Water can't break dementia's ego.
     
  8. Prince Zainx

    Prince Zainx The Dark Prince

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    +1

    Also There will be more Materials that they will find and they will always emerge to be harder than Diamond or this new Substance.

    No biggie in that.
     
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    Diamond's have never been the nature's hardest object...neither is this new thing.

    My penis is.
     
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    Sorry, that would be *my* penis, you're just a runner up. The only reason you could claim yours is the hardest is because they can actually test how hard yours is due to its diminutive size, they can't test mine because of the gargantuan nature which encompasses the entire galaxy in one of the small veins which runs down the side or my scrotum.
     
  11. Mortified Penguin

    Mortified Penguin Senior Member

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    No mines harder, yours is just egotistical.
     
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    Naw, that would be the essence of my actual ego.

    That's right, even my ego has its own essence which radiates from my core. It's so powerful it actually physically manifests itself.
     
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    Sounds cool :eek:
     
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    Scary.... :lol:
     
  15. Mortified Penguin

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    I love that Shaggy is active now.

    Yous be trollin. <3
     

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