Diamond has a hardness of 10 and chalk a harness of 1. Explain what this means.

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Aman Shukla · Answer 1 · 2022-08-17T23:18:56+0000

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they have different forces holding the atoms together

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diamond has a strong convalent bond holding the particles together while chalk has weak van der waals forces holding the particles together hence the diffrence in hardness

Diamond has a hardness of 10 and chalk a harness of 1. Explain what this means.

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