Harder Than Diamond? The New Hexagonal Diamond Breakthrough
EP 38
·38:30

The first characterization results

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38:30On the left, you're seeing the um x-ray diffraction. >> Yes. >> On the x-axis is like an angle of like how the x-ray that's coming in is getting bumped out, and then on the y-axis you're seeing like what the absorption rate is, right? Like the detector. >> Yes. >> And the little spots are where you're seeing the distances between atoms, and they're saying that this is key to showing that this is is hexagonal diamond. They also do the Vickers hard hardness scale. Now I can read the peer review.

From Harder Than Diamond? The New Hexagonal Diamond Breakthrough

A 50-year debate, a harder-than-diamond claim, and some very funny peer review drama.