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Diamonds are the HARDEST natural material.
Mankind has created harder artificial materials.
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Are Moissanite lab created diamonds better than mined diamonds?
Mined diamonds are superior to any man made diamonds.
What are two carbon minerals and how do they differ?
graphite, the substance that makes the lead of your pencil is mostly carbon in one form. It is very soft, which is what makes it work as pencil lead because as you run it across a piece of paper, the graphite rubs off onto the paper. diamond is pure carbon in another form, and is the hardest naturally occurring substance known to man.
Why can't we make diamonds?
We -- humans -- can manufacture diamonds. It takes enormous heat and pressure to produce man-made diamonds.
Are chocolate diamonds man made?
Man-made diamonds can be almost any colour, just like natural diamonds. The colour of a diamond will not be the sole definition of almost any colour of diamond.
Is chocolate diamonds man made?
Brown diamonds are the most common of coloured diamonds found. Chocolate is simply the name of one of the shades of natural brown diamonds. Lab-created diamonds are generally 'white' diamonds.
What is the hardest element known to man?
Diamonds.
What is are some of the hardest natural materials known to man?
Diamonds
Hardest substance known to man?
Diamond
WHAT IS HARDER GOLD OR DIAMOND?
Gold is very soft, almost useless for most engineering purposes. Diamond OTOH is the hardest substance known to man.
What is the 2nd hardest substance known to man?
Diamond 10
How is diamond different to a pencial led?
the most obvious reason being that diamonds cost a lot more than pencil lead. another reaon they are different is that diamonds are the hardest known substance to man. pencil lead is not hard at all.
Is boron nitride the second hardest substance after diamond known to man?
YeS...
Can sandpaper scratch a diamond?
No, diamond's are the hardest substance known to man so far.
Why are diamonds so valuble?
Diamonds are so valuble because, after all, they are the hardest and rarest jewel known to man kind. And yes, I am only a sixth grader, not to brag (i have a great science teacher). Diam
Which mineral is the hardest known-to-man?
Diamond is still the hardest substance known to man. Various carbides such as tungsten carbide, boron carbide, and silicon carbide are also extremely hard, but you will notice that they all contain carbon (diamond is pure carbon - the rest are carbon compounds.)
Why are diamonds used to make drill bits?
Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man. Therefore, they cannot be broken by anything else.this is because it is a giant covalent structure each carbon atom forms four covalent bonds with its neighbours in a rigid giant covalent lattice.Diamonds are used to coat drill bit points because the can thendrill through hard rock.
What is the name of the hardest material known to man?
ADNR's are a special manmade form of pure carbon that are harder (and denser) than natural diamonds and manmade ultrahard fullerine. I believe the answer is lonsdaleite. It is naturally made and is 58% harder than diamonds.
