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Asked by will to Sheona, Jack, Giuditta, Flavia, Craig on 16 Nov 2015.
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Giuditta Perversi answered on 16 Nov 2015:
If we are talking about what it’s the most difficult to break or destroy, I think it would be the Carbon, but only in the Diamond form!
Carbon has a lot of different shapes in which you can “struck” it as a solid, but if you change shape you completely change the properties! For instance, graphite is another really common solid form of carbon, but you write with it, it’s the black stuff in your pencil!
If you heat graphite up at several thousands degrees while putting it under huge pressures (at least 3000 atmospheres), it will turn into a diamond and diamond it’s the hardest material on Earth!
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Comments
Jaime Edmonds 2015 commented on :
I think the strongest element is wind
Giuditta commented on :
Considering Scotland in the last weeks, I would tend to agree.
On the other hand, I am “waterbending” team! 😀
Jaime Edmonds 2015 commented on :
I thin wind because it is VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY windy because our trampoline fell over and nearly smashed our back door
Giuditta commented on :
Yeah, tell me about it…I had to get a friend to give me and my bike a lift from the university last Thursday or I would have never make it home without flying away!