Could a steamroller crush a diamond?
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Of course.  The diamond is the hardest substance, but definitly not the strongest.  If the diamond were on a suffieciently smooth and hard surface, the diamond would easily succumb to the pressure.\n\nIf diamonds are strong enough to hold up gross weight, how is it that we can cut them with simple hand tools the gem cutters use.  They are not.  Don't confuse hardness with strength.\n\nI think there is a story about a massive diamond found in the US that was smashed on an anvil because it was thought that it would resist the hammer if it were a true diamond.  It ended up being a diamond but was practically worthless compared to the original stone.
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Only partly in jest... beat it with a hammer and shatter the ceramic, or heat the steel til it melts and flows away from the ceramic -- both assume some sort of bond between the ceramic and steel.  The actual quickest answer depends on how the ceramic and steel are attached.  It could be as simple as lifting which ever is on top.  \n\nSee what happens when you as an ill-defined question?
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not at all. u c diamond is an insulator. all the carbons in the diamond are tetrahedrally bonded to four other carbons and hence it has no valence electrons left\nhence as it has no free electrons, it cannot conduct electricity
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Usually magnets or wedges that are pressed down inbetween two metal rails:\n\n&#92;/\n||\n\nSorry that i couldn't draw well via the keyboard, but imagine the above as a cross section of the wedge, and the lower vertical lines as a cross section of the metal or semi-metal rails...the rails can taper outward a little to create more surface-to-surface contact.  you can imagine the normal force exerted onto one another between the wedge and the rails as the wedge is pushed into the rails, this normal force grows fast quickly as more force is exerted onto the wedge.  and i'm assuming that you're taking or have taken physics courses, so you should know that let's say a box sliding on the floor, has a frictional force of kw, where k is the kinetic friction constant, and w is the weight of the box, for the wedge/rail setup, we would replace w with the normal force, and the equation wouldn't be that simple, in fact, the force would grow almost exponentially as more force is exerted downward on the wedge since the wedge gets wider and wider.  think of it as a brake/rotor setup on a car, but instead of circular, it's linear, and instead of the brake pads squeezing on the rotor, it's the rotor being pushed into the pads.  this similar setup is used on trolley cars, which is why on some trolley trails, you see another pair of rails, situated close together, inbetween the two main rails for the wheels.\n\nnow in an emergency, there is no stopping anywhere else on the roller coaster track except on the boarding/exiting platform.  the engineers made it so that the momentum of the cars will take them through the entire track system no matter what the (realistic) load distribution is.  can you imagine trying to stop an extremely fast set of attached cars on a track with twists, turns, and loops?  and on top of that, the decision when and where to stop the cars is left to some teenage kid in the booth?  very unsafe and unreliable.
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According to the Mohs scale, diamond is the hardest mineral.  I believe that a harder mineral can scratch a softer mineral as well as itself.  So that would work.
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Only if it was a hammer reinforced with diamond particles.  Otherwise, no...diamonds are the hardest substance on Earth.
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The melting point of diamond is the highest of all known natural substances, over 3800 K, which converts to 6,380 degrees Fahrenheit.  (Carbon's tetrahedral network solid structure is responsible for the high melting point.)  \nAlthough the diamonds themselves did not melt, the earrings' metal may have melted, depending on what it was.  In any case, your earrings are small and would be difficult to locate in the ruins of a burned down house.  If they haven't been stolen, they're definitely still there.
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diamonds usually work
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No, the pressure required to shatter a diamond is much greater than that of someone wielding a steel hammer.
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Could it be King Diamond?  Hehe...
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Yes...if it burns through the conductor.
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It would be a physical paradox and the cat's feet and half the toast (along with the butter) would cancel each other out and disappear into the ether. Or explode. Either way, it gets a bit messy. I wouldn't recommend trying it.
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no a diamond is a type of rock.\n\na crystal is a type of glass.\n\nsimilar, but not quite the same.
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diamond can only be cut by another diamond.
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get run over by a steamroller
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Why not take a page from Archimedes' Eureka! moment?\n\nMeasure the density, then ask a jeweler.
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actually, it can! If you understand physics, the website below has proof. (but I dont know how hard you threw it.)