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Easy-to-Make Material Scratches Diamond

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the mohs-hardness-scale-so-hosed dept.

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.

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  1. YOU'RE A FUCKING MORON--THAT'S WHY SHE DUMPED YOU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Free love on the freelove freeway, the
    Love is free and the freeway's long, I got some
    Hot love on the hotlove highway, ain't
    Going home 'cause my baby's gone (she's gone)

  2. and put a cock in your mouth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everybody knows that hard cock is a girl's best friend. Just look at how they love to slurp on on it. Yeah.

    Brighten a man's day. Put a cock in your mouth.

  3. YOU'RE STILL A FUCKING MORON by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A long time later I see a cowboy crying.
    "Hey buddy, what can I do?"
    He says, "I lived a good life, had about a thousand women,"
    I said, "Why the tears?", he says, "'Cause none of them was you".

  4. Re:YOU'RE A FUCKING MORON--THAT'S WHY SHE DUMPED Y by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Which part? Your marriage, or that you were ever married?

  5. ROCK! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: -1, Troll

    Paper...

    --
    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
  6. ... and a zap of current by ickleberry · · Score: -1, Troll

    Isn't UCLA the place where that kid got tasered 6 times by a cop?