In most people's cognition, diamond is very hard, common diamonds and small drill bits set on glass knives belong to diamond, but diamonds are valuable because of its aesthetic value. Many people think that the best way to identify diamonds is to smash the hammer, if not broken, it proves to be true, in fact, this statement is unreliable, the result will certainly be heart-wrenching, if the hammer smashes the diamond, the diamond will definitely break.
Although diamond is the hardest of naturally occurring substances, this does not mean that it is indestructible. The hardness of the hammer is much lower than the hardness of a diamond, but it is definitely the diamond that collides with the two. The hardness of the object is actually the compressive ability of the object, not the harder it is, the stronger it is. In many cases, the harder the object is, the easier to break, for example, with a knife to cut the glass and chopsticks, the scratches on the chopsticks will certainly be more obvious, which proves that the hardness of the glass is greater, but when the glass is struck with chopsticks, the glass will be broken.
The main reason why tapping glass with chopsticks causes glass to shatter is that glass is more brittle. Brittleness refers to the ability of an object to deform when it suffers a heavy blow, so hardness is not a criterion for measuring whether an object is strong, and brittleness needs to be taken into account, because the brittleness of the hammer is smaller, so when the diamond is smashed with the hammer, the broken diamond must be the diamond. Diamonds, although rare, are essentially tetrahedral arrangements of carbon atoms, so they can still be artificially manufactured.
When the diamond suffers a heavy blow, the surface will appear cracks, and then the external force will continue to conduct through the crystalline surface, and finally break in the weakest crystalline surface, and after smashing a large diamond, the small diamond will be a small octahedral structure, and this principle is also used for diamond cutting, which is also the reason for the shape of common diamonds, it is the use of diamond brittleness will be better divided.
Although diamonds can now be manufactured by hand, the price of diamonds is generally high, so when preserving diamonds, it is still necessary to pay attention to them, after all, diamonds will also be broken.
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