Can You Break A Diamond With Hammer. Lasers or other diamonds can be used to break a diamond as well. You can also burn them in oxygen since theyre made of carbon.
You can also burn them in oxygen since theyre made of carbon. Under the right conditions a diamond can burn or be converted to graphite. A diamond in fact can be broken easily using a hammer.
As an example you can scratch steel with a diamond but you can easily shatter a diamond with a hammer.
The diamond often fell through hands and loses it tippoint just by falling at the floor. A diamond is the hardest gemstone on the Mohs scale but is also brittle. Well diamonds have something called cleavage patterns. A diamond is made entirely of carbon atoms which are joined in a lattice-type structure.
