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gliese1337
5044 days ago
Not even that, quite. There are two known naturally occurring minerals that are harder than diamond: wurtzite boron nitride, and lonsdaleite (another carbon allotrope). They just don't occur in very large quantities.
Ref:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16610-diamond-no-longe...