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Easy-to-Make Material Scratches Diamond
holy_calamity writes "A material tough enough to scratch diamond that can be made without resorting to massive pressure has been developed at UCLA. A regular furnace and a zap of current is enough to meld boron with the metal rhenium." Sound familiar? This is the other new material tougher than diamond, but no word yet on how they rate against each other.
It's about time!
Now how is the skeletal bonding programing doing?
That's a funny way to spell dolemite.
Sweet.
Diamond is one of the hardest (if not THE hardest) metals known to man!
Due to extensive research done by the Fourchon University of Science, diamond has been confirmed as the the hardest metal known the man. The research is as follows.
Pocket-protected scientists built a wall of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed.
They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an out into the wall, and the wall came out fine.
They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors.
They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond traveling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours.
They rammed a wall of metal into a 400 mile per hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted the earth's orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards midwestern Prussia at 400 billion miles per hour.
They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused two wayward airplanes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with two buildings in downtown New York.
They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive.
Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall traveling at miles, and the result proved without a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known the man.
In my last marriage, my ex-'s ring didn't last very long. Six-months to be exact - so diamonds aren't forever. If this new substance can ensure the santity of marriage, I'm all for it!
A regular furnace and a zap of current is enough to meld boron with the metal rhenium....Sound familiar?
If this sounds familiar you need to get out more. Seriously.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
When keying someone's car isn't enough to say I hate you, make a key out of this material and key their jewelery.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
rhenium diboride is a girls best friend
On soviet slashdot, overlords make joke about you!
Yes. You wanna make something of it, whelp? Because I have a pair of computer speakers and a receipt from the gas station that will make handy weapons.
Again, we mustn't conflate hardness, stiffness, and toughness!
I've been studying diamond for a while now, and have a fairly prominent webpage about diamond's material properties, and on three separate occasions I have been contacted in the following way:
A budding fantasy author is writing a book in which the protagonist has a sword made out of diamond, "because diamond is the hardest material of all!", and they wanted to run the idea past me first.
So I point out that, despite being very hard (i.e. resistant to indentation), diamond is in fact very brittle (i.e. not very tough), and indeed the very first time that our hero hits something with his diamond sword, it will shatter.
In one case, the author said that I had basically ruined his life by wrecking the whole concept of the book that he had been writing for the last few years. In subsequent emails, he was begging me to come up with a solution (e.g. diamond sword, coated with steel, etc.?)...
cue "Nobody doesn't like molten Boron" jingle
So that's what happened to the boron in the elephant dung.
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Chuck Norris's toe nail clippings?
No, but now it goes to eleven. It's one harder.
We tried to kill the myth, sergeant, but apparently our bullets could only cripple it.
After 3 days without programming, life becomes meaningless
- The Tao of Programming
On his scale, this one goes up to 11.
Windows has detected an undetectable error.
tell him to make the sword out of rhenium diboride
this is loaner...my sig is in the shop
Man (down on one knee): Honey, will you marry me? Woman: What the hell is that? Man: It's rhenium diboride, more durable than diamond. I wanted to show you just how much I love you, even more than diamond. Woman: Cheap bastard. Come back when you have a diamond.
Actually, pure-lead rounds won't strip the riflings, that type of heat will melt the lead and make it clog the riflings up. I made that mistake with my dad's AR-15 (I filed the metal jacketing off and used a dremel to cross-point the lead core for a hollow-point effect..) Two shots and one misfire later, the gun's barrel was fucked, clogged with lead.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Now I can finally scratch all moms jewelry for a few bucks! Yay!