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Carbon atoms can bond to other carbon atoms in a variety of ways, but when they bond in a network, with all the atoms bonding to all the other atoms that surround them, it is a very strong bond, stronger than the bonds formed in other minerals. Strong bonds are, by definition, hard to break. Hence the material is very hard. Scratching it requires breaking bonds.

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Diamond is a crystalline form of carbon in which each carbon atom is bonded strongly to four other carbon atoms by covalent bonds resulting in a solid hard nonreactive substance

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