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Boron nitride, tougher than it looks

Posted on July 19, 2021 by VM

During World War I, a British aeronautical engineer named A.A. Griffith noticed something odd about glass. He found that the atomic bonds in glass needed 10,000 megapascals of stress to break apart – but a macroscopic mass of glass could … Continue reading →

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Boron nitride, tougher than it looks

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