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Although diamond is the hardest natural substance, if one hammered a gemstone with a hammer, one may be able to shatter the gemstone. But what a waste of a gemstone.

If you'd like, you can purchase a bag full of industrial diamonds for about the price of a latte, and hammer yourself into an answer.

Since the lattice formulation of the diamond crystal is perfect on all four sides, if you struck the rock exactly in the right place, you could split it. Diamond cutters count on this phenomenon to cut and polish raw diamonds.

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