Why don't they make bulletproof vests etc. out of diamond if it is the hardest metal?

Why don't they make bulletproof vests etc. out of diamond if it is the hardest metal?

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It's too heavy. 1 gram of diamond weighs something like 15 grams.

Whoa

Its crystalline structure is prone to shattering.

"hardness" is defined as which material can scrape which material (in the sense of the Mohs scale). It doesn't equate to "how well the material performs under stress".

you're a special kind of stupid, arent you?

A soldier/officers life isn't worth whatever a diamond laced vest is.

>1 gram
> weighs
>15 grams

It's not a metal.

There is some information eli5 on Reddit recently that explains it pretty well. Essentially it's strong af, but weak in a different way. It will cut metal, but will be crushed by something heavy or cracked by a bullet. Essentially the opposite of bulletproof glass

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wow, You've got some great trolling there

Dafuq, We have 12 year olds here?

1gram weight 1gram

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same fag ??

Bait? If not then I'll answer. A diamond is just a perfect patterned piece of million-years-old carbon. If you strike a diamond in the gaps between its molecules, you can cut it clean in half. It's not strong, just hard. You can make weapons from it, just don't defend yourself.

Also carbon becomes weaker in large quantities.

Stil a great fucking reply

Taking the bait like a faggot noob

okay, I will take the bait. Diamond is not metal - it is carbon crystal. Crystals are hard, but hardness is not what you want in bulletproofing - the shockwaves of the bullet hitting it would be passed through the hard material - so big bruising and internal damage stillpossible. also, diamond shatters, so you end up with diamond shrapnel in the wound. also diamond is hard to make into sheets, or mold to body shape. You could sew lots of small diamonds into a bullet prooj jacket, but again, likely to end up as shrapnel. For bullet proofing you want material that absorbs the energy, by flexing without breaking, or breaking only after long stretching - layers of tough fabric are better than a hard plate. wrong. Industrial diamonds are cheap as sand - they are just rocks - if you buy in bulk...

This is why:
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Also it'd be expensive as fuck.

They do make them out of diamonds. That's why they are bulletproof

Ha, haven't seen this recently

Do you know something about graphene?

Diamonds eventually turn into graphene so it would be waste of resources.

Great copypasta faggot, try again.

Because 1 gram is like 15 grams