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Chinese Scientists Finally Create Rare Hexagonal Diamond, and It's Harder Than the Natural Kind

The diamond was around 0.04 inches in size and exhibited more sturdiness and resistance compared to typical cubic diamonds.
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Scientists forge pure hexagonal diamonds tougher than natural gems

Researchers have produced nearly pure hexagonal diamond, a material long theorized to be harder than conventional diamond, by ...

Researchers create pure hexagonal diamonds that are harder than natural diamonds

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...
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Scientists forge hexagonal diamond that might crush real diamonds

An international research team has produced a bulk, millimeter-scale hexagonal diamond in the laboratory, a crystal variant long theorized to rival or exceed the hardness of the cubic diamonds found ...

Scientists create a hexagonal diamond that could be even harder than the real thing

To misquote a famous song, "Diamonds are industry's best friend." Cubic diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth and is used in everything from precision cutting tools to high-performance ...