Is there a metal stronger than diamond?

The structure of boron nitride in its wurtzite configuration is stronger than diamonds. Boron nitride can also be used to construct nanotubes, aerogels, and a wide variety of other fascinating applications.
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Is there any thing stronger than diamond?

The scientists found Q-carbon to be 60% harder than diamond-like carbon (a type of amorphous carbon with similar properties to diamond). This has led them to expect Q-carbon to be harder than diamond itself, although this still remains to be proven experimentally.
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Is Tungsten stronger than diamond?

Tungsten metal is rated at about a nine on the Mohs scale of hardness. A diamond, which is the hardest substance on earth and the only thing that can scratch tungsten, is rated at a 10.
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Is Obsidian stronger than diamond?

It is 3 times sharper than diamond and between 500-1000 times sharper than a razor or a surgeon's steel blade resulting in easier incisions and fewer microscopic ragged tissue cuts.
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Is Titanium stronger than diamond?

Is Titanium Stronger Than a Diamond? Titanium is not stronger than a diamond. In terms of hardness, Titanium is not harder than a diamond either.
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Is there anything stronger than diamond?



How is Dragon glass made?

Characteristics. Obsidian is volcanic glass formed by immense heat and pressure in the earth. Smallfolk like to say that dragonglass is made by dragons, while maesters say it comes from the fires of the earth.
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Can diamond break bedrock?

Bedrock has no "set" tool that you can mine it with, so even a 32k enchanted diamond pickaxe will still mine up at the speed of your hand, and the enchantment will have no effect.
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What can break diamonds?

As an example, you can scratch steel with a diamond, but you can easily shatter a diamond with a hammer. The diamond is hard, the hammer is strong. Whether something is hard or strong depends on its internal structure. A diamond is made entirely of carbon atoms which are joined in a lattice-type structure.
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Are teeth harder than diamonds?

Just how hard is tooth enamel? It is, in fact, the human body's hardest substance. Using the scale of mineral hardness developed by German mineralogist Frederich Mohs in 1812, tooth enamel ranked 5 out of the 1-10 values. Diamonds ranked 10 (hardest) and plaster of Paris ranked only 2 on the Moh's scale.
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Is osmium harder than diamond?

Researchers from us-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (llnl) have discovered that osmium, a metal, is harder than diamond. It withstands compression better than any other material.
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Is a diamond bullet proof?

Diamond Armor is certified bulletproof by NATO standards, waterproof thanks to nano-technology sealing and has an EMPA air conditioning system in-built to keep the wearer cool.
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Can you bite a diamond?

You can crush a diamond by biting it with your teeth

Your enamel will just chip off. Diamond can cut through all the other minerals on the Mohs Scale, so scratching or even breaking your tooth would be a piece of cake.
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Can a bullet break diamond?

Diamond, while much harder than the soft metal lead, is not as dense. When a lead bullet hits a target, the metal is soft enough to immediately flatten on impact or even break apart and heavy fragments may even bounce around in the target causing massive damage.
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Can TNT break bedrock?

This TNT can Destroy BEDROCK in Minecraft.
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What is under bedrock in real life?

Bedrock is the hard, solid rock beneath surface materials such as soil and gravel. Bedrock also underlies sand and other sediments on the ocean floor. Bedrock is consolidated rock, meaning it is solid and tightly bound. Overlying material is often unconsolidated rock, which is made up of loose particles.
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What is the hardest stone to break?

Diamonds are the hardest stone, while talc (for example) is a very soft mineral. The scale by which the hardness of minerals is measured is the Mohs Hardness Scale, which compares the resistance of a mineral to being scratched by ten standard reference minerals that vary in hardness.
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Can gold stop a bullet?

Gold Flex is lighter than woven Kevlar, Twaron and other Ballistic material. According to the manufacturer, Gold Flex offers superior bulletproof protection.
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Why is titanium not used in body armor?

Titanium's relatively poor shear strength, combined with its very poor heat transfer properties, make it inherently susceptible to fail catastrophically in such situations via a phenomenon known as adiabatic shear plugging.
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Could you make a sword out of tungsten?

A blade made out of tungsten alloy that's also electrically heated to 3000C. The shape and sharpness is similar to a katana. The user carries a battery pack that provides enough energy for the sword to last about 3 hours. The dimensions of the blade is 75cm long, 3cm wide and a thickness of 6.7mm at its thickest point.
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Does obsidian exist?

obsidian, igneous rock occurring as a natural glass formed by the rapid cooling of viscous lava from volcanoes. Obsidian is extremely rich in silica (about 65 to 80 percent), is low in water, and has a chemical composition similar to rhyolite.
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Is obsidian real?

Obsidian is an "extrusive” rock, which means it is made from magma that erupted out of a volcano. If it was an igneous rock that formed from magma underground and did not erupt, it would have been called an "intrusive" rock.
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Can you melt obsidian?

Obsidian doesn't have a particular chemical formula. It is a mixture. So there is no definite melting point.
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Can a diamond melt in lava?

To put it simply, a diamond cannot melt in lava, because the melting point of a diamond is around 4500 °C (at a pressure of 100 kilobars) and lava can only be as hot as about 1200 °C.
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