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Diamonds are no longer the world’s hardest material
Posted on 04. Mar, 2009 by chaze.
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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. An international team, led by Zicheng Pan at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, simulated how atoms in two substances believed to have [...]
