{"id":146699,"date":"2022-09-20T01:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T06:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-have-found-a-mineral-stronger-than-diamond"},"modified":"2022-09-20T01:24:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T06:24:49","slug":"scientists-have-found-a-mineral-stronger-than-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-have-found-a-mineral-stronger-than-diamond","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have found a mineral stronger than diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-found-a-mineral-stronger-than-diamond2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They say lonsdaleite could be used to fortify industrial tools like drill bits and saw blades \u2014 AND teach us about the evolution of earth.<\/p>\n<p>AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:<\/p>\n<p>Move over, diamonds. There\u2019s stronger bling in town. Meet lonsdaleite \u2014 for years just a theory. Now CNN reports that scientists have confirmed its existence on Earth. While diamonds and lonsdaleite are both made of carbon \u2014 get ready for this \u2014 the former has a cubic atomic structure, and the latter has a hexagonal structure. So what\u2019s the big difference? That hexagonal structure makes the stone 58% stronger than regular diamonds. Lonsdaleite was found in a meteorite that scientists say came from a dwarf planet that was billions of years old. An asteroid crashed into that planet, releasing pressure that caused the stone to form. The hardness of lonsdaleite could be useful in making super durable tools for industrial sites. But scientists also say this discovery can teach us about the interactions of the universe and ultimately how Earth evolved as a planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say lonsdaleite could be used to fortify industrial tools like drill bits and saw blades \u2014 AND teach us about the evolution of earth. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Move over, diamonds. There\u2019s stronger bling in town. Meet lonsdaleite \u2014 for years just a theory. Now CNN reports that scientists have confirmed its existence on Earth. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}