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Diamond is famously known as the hardest mineral on Earth. But researchers have been pursuing an unusual variant of it — known as hexagonal diamond — that might be even harder. After decades of claims ...

Scientists from China have claimed they might have found a mineral that is harder than the cubic diamond, which is known to the world as the hardest existing mineral. The hexagonal diamond (HD) is ...

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