Toughest Material In The World

Carbon is altogether one of the foremost fascinating elements in all of nature, with chemical and physical properties, unlike the other element. With just six protons in its nucleus, it is the lightest abundant element capable of forming a slew of complex bonds. All known sorts of life are carbon-based, as its atomic properties enable it to meet up with up to four other atoms at a time. The possible geometries of these bonds also enable carbon to self-assemble, particularly under high pressures, into a stable space lattice.

If the conditions are good, carbon atoms can form a solid, ultra-hard structure referred to as a diamond. Although diamonds are commonly referred to as the toughest material within the world, there are literally six harder materials. Diamonds are still one of the toughest present and abundant materials on Earth, but these six materials all have their beat. On the biological side, spider silk is notorious because of the toughest.

With a better strength-to-weight ratio than most conventional materials like aluminum or steel, it's also remarkable for the way thin and sticky it is. Of all the spiders within the world, Darwin's bark spiders have the toughest: ten times stronger than kevlar. it is so thin and lightweight that approximately a pound (454 grams) of Darwin's bark spider silk would compose a strand long enough to trace out the circumference of the whole planet. For a present mineral, carbide — found naturally within the sort of moissanite — is merely slightly less in hardness than diamonds. (It's still harder than any spider silk.) A chemical mixture of silicon and carbon, which occupies an equivalent family within the table together with another, carbide grains are mass-produced since 1893. they will be bonded together through a high-pressure.

By: Jyoti Nayak

Birla School, Pilani