You may be thinking of diamond dust, used to polish.
Diamond-like Carbon has a coefficient of friction of as low as 0.05 on polished steel.
No. It's man-made.
Because Diamond is an allotrope of carbon - diamonds are purely made out of carbon.
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yes, a diamond is a crystalline form of pure carbon, there for making it a pure substance.
If you have a silvery substance on the back surface of your diamond, it is not a diamond.
No, Diamond which is entirely made up of carbon is the hardest
Pearl is made by a living organism (an oyster) and is soft. Diamond is made deep in the earth and is the hardest substance known to man.
No natural substance is equal in hardness to a diamond.
Diamond is the hardest substance on Earth that is non-metal. It is made of carbon atoms arranged in a strong crystal lattice structure, giving it its extraordinary hardness.
diamond is the hardest substance known to science at this time, and graphite is a rather weak substance, and they are both made of the same elements. Their only differences are the arrangement of the molecules