Pure hexagonal diamonds are real and harder than natural diamonds

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder.
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Chinese team makes bulk hexagonal diamond, potentially harder than diamond

A Chinese research team has produced bulk hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure long theorized to be harder than ...

Chinese physicists create elusive 'hexagonal diamond' that's harder than natural diamond

Researchers made small, pure samples of the elusive mineral lonsdaleite – also known as hexagonal diamond — and tested its ...
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Researchers create pure hexagonal diamonds that are harder than natural diamonds

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...