Why
diamonds are so hard and wouldn’t break?
The key to
the mystery is water. Diamond is a crystallized
carbon. Due to its density, no other
object can get in the material. Other
minerals, for example, are less denser than diamond, so that impurity would
mixed in the material and react inside, which would cause the minerals to fall
apart.
Also, all
the objects contain water inside. When
the water froze or rotten inside, the objects will fall apart. However, diamond has no space for water to
get in.
When finish
cutting the diamonds at the factory, they are soaked into boiling hydrochloric acid for cleansing. Even so, the diamond
would not be affected.
What would
happen if hydrochloric acid gets inside the diamond?
I found the
relationship between the water and the diamond very interesting.
When we
talked about eternity, I think of the expression that “life is eternal”.
What
do you think does the words mean?
