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Diamond has a hardness of 10 and chalk a harness of 1. Explain what this means.
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Diamond has a hardness of 10 and chalk a harness of 1. Explain what this means.

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they have different forces holding the atoms together

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diamond has a strong convalent bond holding the particles together while chalk has weak van der waals forces holding the particles together hence the diffrence in hardness

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