neat. I guess the new Mohs scale would have cubic diamond at a 9.9, and hexagonal diamond at a 10? or would the current scale be kept, and hexagonal diamond be assigned an 11?

I guess this is what happens when you get the government to fund science and engineering instead of the mars corporation funding science and chemical engineering

This was first done nearly 60 years ago. Here’s the paper from 1967.

pubs.aip.org/…/Hexagonal-Diamond-A-New-Form-of-Ca…

As someone already said, this has been done in 1967 already.

It’s just another piece in OP’s endless pro-China and pro-Russia propaganda stream, apparently spread through various alt accounts. Sadly, this includes even cross-posts from ml comms.