In rec.arts.sf.science message <fn2qpm$aj8$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Mon, 21
Jan 2008 13:11:50, Mike Combs <mikecombs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"Crown-Horned Snorkack" <chornedsnorkack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>news:eced410a-d8b5-43e6-9496-06b04d8bb47b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> So, an idea of strengthening diamond would be to create a dense tangle
>> of diamond fibres, which are welded together just hard enough that
>> they do not easily slip apart like graphite planes do, but not so
>> thoroughly annealed as to allow free crack propagation.
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>Is that the definition of diamondoid? Or is that something else?
>
>Actually, after typing the above I went off to Wikipedia:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamondoid
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>If I read (OK, skimmed) it right, the definition of diamondoid would
>encompass what you're talking about, but would also be broader in scope.
I read it differently. Diamondoid refers to an essentially crystalline
structure, not a tangle welded at the contacts. A single buckytube
counts as diamondoid, but a tangle of welded buckytubes, though made of
diamondoid, is not itself diamondoid.
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