If diamond is the hardest metal why don't we make bulletproof vests out of it?

If diamond is the hardest metal why don't we make bulletproof vests out of it?

Might be a little expensive dipshit

there are certain tools that are diamond tipped, like drillbits, so im sure they have incorporated that idea into the design of certain bulletproof vests as well

Because the reflections confuse military hardwear so you fall over from exhaustiin of fixing them, ive tried it before

>metal

Because its heavy as fuck. One 50lbs vest would weigh like 200lbs

>metal
OP either failed chemistry or is underage b&

Im sorry, what?

Check'd and kek'd

>50lbs would weigh 200lbs

+1 kek for being so original, give your family my regards... they need it

Some spec ops teams do, but most bullets are diamond-tipped now anyway, so it doesn't matter

Because they people would just shoot diamond bullets.

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Oh hell no.
The important thing to remember is that 'hardness' generally only refers to the materials' resistance to compressive forces. Basically - a 'harder' material can scratch a 'softer' material. It tells you very little about that material's other properties.
Diamond, while incredibly hard, is not particularly tough - which is resistance to fracturing. In fact, it's commonly repeated that diamonds can be shattered with a well placed whack of a hammer.

It would be too heavy. 1g of diamond weighs something like 15g

Ay nice reference

I'm in engineering and I learned about this, but while it's very hard, its not very tough in comparison to other materials. (think scientific properties of materials)

It's just a bit brittle for that, maybe diamond impregnated kevlar would work?

Due to extensive research done by the University of Pittsburgh, diamond has been confirmed as the hardest metal known to man. The research is as follows. Pocket-protected scientists built a wall of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed. They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an hour into the wall, and the wall came out fine. They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors. They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond traveling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours. They rammed a wall of metal into a 400 mile per hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted the earth's orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards mid-western Prussia at 400 billion miles per hour. They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused two wayward airplanes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with two buildings in downtown New York. They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive. Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall traveling at miles per iron, and the result proved without a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known to man.

go look up the difference between hardness and tensile strength

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