Pencil 'Lead' Mightier than Diamonds?

GuardianBob420 writes "Space Daily is reporting that a team of researchers has used a combination of extreme pressure and irradiation to alter the molecular structure of graphite -- resulting in a previously unobserved super-hard form of the stuff. From the article: 'The graphite that resulted from our experiment was so hard that when we released the pressure we saw that it had actually cracked the diamond anvil.'"

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Re:What does this prove?

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The point is, idiot, that just because you can break a with b doesn't make b harder than a.

More proof of the downward spiral of slashdot.