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Carbon Nanotubes Harder Than Diamond

Posted by michael on from the man's-best-friend dept.

purduephotog writes "CDAC has announced the formation of a new form of hexagonal packed carbon similiar to diamond. Carbon nanotubes are compressed at 75 GPa and quenched. The new material is conclusively different via Raman Spectroscopy and both cracked and indented the diamond anvil used in its creation. CDAC is also known to have created via CVD the hardest diamond to date."

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  1. But the real question is... by BayBlade · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it go to 11?

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  2. Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've never done a spectroscopic analysis of ramen before - I usually just ate it

  3. Somehow by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    I cant see them becoming a girls best friend though

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  4. Gotta boil 'em by yotto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Raman Spectroscopy

    Dude, they're always tough until you boil them for 3 minutes. This is nothing new.

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  5. Carbon on carbon violence by martensitic · · Score: 5, Funny
    "both cracked and indented the diamond anvil used in its creation"

    And thus, the student overtakes the master.

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  6. Re:Is it really that hard by deglr6328 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's why he made it a link.

    Now, in order to read the article text in the proceedings of the national academies of science you'll apparently have to clink on a link with the name "WANG_PNAS.pdf" and I'm just not feeling that daring while I'm still at work on a Friday afternoon :)

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  7. Re:And best of all! by owlstead · · Score: 4, Funny

    What? They compress African peasants to make diamonds? The bastards!

  8. Re:Explanation of Raman spectroscopy by Tenebrious1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Raman spectroscopy, is a branch where one looks at the wavelength shift occurring as light passes through a sample.

    Ramen spectroscopy, on the other hand, is applying a single frequency, usually 2.5GHz, to the ramen which is in a water solution, for about 3 minutes. The analysis is rather straightfoward, but you should blow on it otherwise it might scald your measuring equipment.

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  9. Ramans do everything in threes by dakara · · Score: 5, Funny
    Raman Spectroscopy

    I'm expecting 2 more dupes of this article.