Science News for Kids » super tough http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org Publication of the Society for Science & the Public Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Harder than diamonds? http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/10/harder-than-diamonds/ http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/10/harder-than-diamonds/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:50:22 +0000 Sid Perkins http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/?p=14462 This image depicts the mixture of fullerenes (pink, soccer ball–shaped molecules) and xylene (blue molecules) before it is compressed to form a material that’s hard enough to dent a diamond. Credit: Carnegie Institution of Washington

Researchers create new material that may be world’s hardest]]> This image depicts the mixture of fullerenes (pink, soccer ball–shaped molecules) and xylene (blue molecules) before it is compressed to form a material that’s hard enough to dent a diamond. Credit: Carnegie Institution of Washington

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