However, diamonds aren't especially tough that is, they aren’t highly resistant to fracture. That’s because strong chemical bonds hold the diamond’s individual carbon atoms in a tight rigid crystal lattice. They can scratch just about everything else but are nearly impossible to scratch with anything else. Now, diamonds are by far the hardest naturally occurring substance known. Even the hardest materials we know of-including diamonds, wurtzite, boron nitride, moissanite, and corundum-can be fractured.įor instance, it's possible to shatter a diamond with a metal hammer.
If you hit it with enough force, or hit it in just the right way, almost anything can break-that is, separate into pieces.
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Ulrich Faul, a researcher at the Institute of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, explained this This shows that diamond is relatively common in the geological scale of things. In the review of the soundwave tracks, they found a " treasure chest " among the cratones because they migrate at different rates depending on their composition, temperature or mineral content. To find the diamonds, the researchers scanned the seismic activity that are the sounds of the earth with which they normally measure earthquakes. The craters are the continental masses located in the lithosphere between the crust and the mantle. Joint Research published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard and the University of California in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, found that billion of diamonds in the deepest sections of Kratons
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