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The hardest practical metal is high carbon steel.
Titanium is lighter, but has more volume with equivalent strength.
Most alloys are either too heavy, too brittle or too large to be practical.
For example, making a sword of pure diamond would be the hardest type of sword (And certainly the most expensive) yet one decent hit could crack it because it is not malleable enough.
There have been experiments with hybrid materials like a carbon fibre tang with a steel blade, but nothing really happening yet.
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What is the hardest medal on earth?
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What is the hardest metal?
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What stone is the hardest stone?
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Does a sword float?
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Which is the hardest metal?
Lutemium
Is thompson the hardest metal?
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Which is the least hardest metal?
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Is titanium the hardest metal?
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Name the hardest metal?
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What is the second hardest metal?
tungsten
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Which one is hardest metal diamond or aluminium or silver or platinum?
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What is the hardest non-metal element?
diamond
What is the metal that is hardest to break?
nothing
