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New Material Harder Than Diamond

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the thats-one-gem-thats-hard-to-imagine dept.

h4x0r-3l337 writes "Diamond is no longer the hardest substance known to man. Scientists have created a new material, called "aggregated diamond nanorods" by compressing carbon-60 under high heat. From the article: 'The hardness of a material is measured by its isothermal bulk modulus. Aggregated diamond nanorods have a modulus of 491 gigapascals (GPa), compared with 442 GPa for conventional diamond.'"

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  1. Er, what? by gblues · · Score: 0, Troll
    Diamond is no longer the hardest substance known to man.

    Are you a fucking moron? This isn't a new substance, it's just a more tightly packed and more highly organized version of a conventional diamond. It's still a diamond. I mean if it was some new alloy or new substance altogether, that would be one thing. But this is still just plain ol' carbon--just specially treated to be harder than the run-of-the-mill industrial diamonds we use now.

    Nathan

  2. Hmmm.... by vectorian798 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I got something harder than diamond for you....

    PS: only women
    PS2: ok so no one from slashdot :)

  3. WARNING GOATSE LINK IN PARENT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Parent's link goes to goatse pic, you have been warned!

  4. That's not hard! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's not hard... What I'm hiding in my pants, now that's hard!

  5. Marketing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Diamond XP or GNU/Diamond?

  6. Re:To all the posters making jokes about thier wiv by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Cause they give great head...

  7. Re:Diamonds =/= Diamonds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    erm... maybe that's a bad comparison.

    Sorry, I'm drunk.

  8. Re:I want... by Donald+Ferrone · · Score: -1, Troll

    I swear to you, I will slit your throat, you worthless GNU hippie faggot.

    --
    Donald Ferrone, Ph.D
    Professor of computer science
    http://www.geocities.com/donald_ferrone/
  9. Re:hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How's this for a substance harder than diamond.

    My Cock.

    Thanks, I'll be here all night.