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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Sino@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days ago

Chinese physicists create elusive 'hexagonal diamond' that's harder than natural diamond

www.livescience.com

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Chinese physicists create elusive 'hexagonal diamond' that's harder than natural diamond

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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Sino@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days ago
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Researchers made small, pure samples of the elusive mineral lonsdaleite – also known as hexagonal diamond — and tested its material properties to show it's harder than diamond.
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      Check out this dope ass rock

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    DeBeers cartel in shambles

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    So does this change the Mohs hardness scale or does it go higher then 10?

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      It’s an ordinal scale rather than a constant mapping. They’ll have to define what it is at some point, whether that be 11 or something else.

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      it’s just a relative scale so there’s no reason this couldn’t be 10.1 or whatever

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    by creating several pure hexagonal diamond samples about 0.06 inches (1.5 millimeters) in diameter ‪—‬ big enough to measure the samples’ material properties

    dang that sounds big enough to take a picture of, show me the cool rock honk-enraged

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    Missed opportunity to call it Dwarfite if it comes from the mantle of smashed Dwarf planets.

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    What a weird coincidence; I was reading about superdense carbon allotropes just a few hours ago

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    As always hexagons are the bestagons.

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    my peanits?

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