/sci/ - Science & Math

Diamond is a tetrahedral arrangement of carbon atoms. So could we make diamond stronger if we made it a hexahedral, octahedral, or decahedral instead?

>>8482783
I don't think Carbon can expand its octet like that.

Not a metal

because adding more atoms to a diamond could be dangerous, i guess adding more particles to a metal could make it super-electricity-conductive as the electrons would be compressed and thus expelled more easily
honestlyhaving diamonds blow out because htey are so reactive isnt agood marketing strat my dude

Why can't we put a diamond inside a diamond so it becomes a double diamond harder than just one?

>>8482766
>Carbon is a metal
>being this dumbfuck

>>8484790
>adding more particles to a metal could make it super-electricity-conductive

It's a bit counter-intuitive but increasing the density of a metallic complex actually increases the electrical impedance and thus makes it less conductive. Conductance doesn't scale linearly with density and will only increase to a point after which it begins to drop. This happens because as you add metal atoms the conduction channels between them for electrons to flow through become more and more narrow restricting the maximum current that can flow through the entire metallic complex. If you could make a metal infinitely dense it would have an infinite resistance because there would be no conduction channels to allow electron flow.

>>8482783
no, these solids dont fill up a 3d plane like a tetrahedral arrengement does

>>8482881
>>8484965
Newfags

>>8482766
Aren't they the hardest metal because 1 gram of diamond weighs something like 15 grams?

>>8482766
no
more atoms = more diamods
It is proven that 2 things can not be in the same place

>>8482881
>>8484965
>taking the bait.

>>8482783
>>8482785

Lol why not just take two diamonds and hammer them together, forcing the "octet" (whatever gay shit that is) to "expand" (lolwut?) and mushing them together into a mega-diamond? Scientists are such idiots.

>>8485297

Ummmm idiot alert how do people have more than two things inside their house then you fucking dumbass?

>>8485309
the theorem is only applicable to massive houses
though

>>8482766
Cardboard is pretty strong for being made of paper.

But when you crush cardboard it becomes flimsy.

Cardboard is the second hardest metal known to man.

>>8485778
i dont get your logic
thats just shitposting

>>8482766
We can make exotic compounds and structures if we apply Jupiter/Mariana's Trench levels of presure, like Na3CL or weird things like that.