It’s trivially easy to shatter a diamond if you hit it the wrong way.  My mom turned her engagement diamond into powder doing the dishes.

Me either. We made Polaroids of the X-Ray pattern in the lab, and luckily I had a smart lab partner. These days, I wonder how I ever graduated with a physics degree.

You don’t even need a hammer sometimes. I did a jewellery course briefly when I was a kid and one of the women in that course had a wedding ring they wanted the diamond out of to put into another ring (more a divorce ring at that point :P). The teacher was a bit hesitant since that was a much more valuable resource to…

Have you seen The China Syndrome? Welds are super important! 

Yep, read the article and no mention of unobtanium! I was disappointed.

I mean, diamond powder is a very common cutting abrasive (used, typically, to cut gemstones. Including diamonds). Large grain, it looks like this:

Superconductivity is frustrating, but it is at the edge of material science, so it is expected to bring failure after failure and slow progress. Still every experiment, every bit of info brings us closer to this holy grail.

I can only imagine that shattered diamonds just look like smaller diamonds.

I too graduated from Starfleet’s James T. Kirk School of Diplomacy and Species Relations.

Pandorian Herpes.

What is the downside again?

Yes, but your method requires freaky avatar sex with alien cat people.

They’ll never be able to create this particular substance in a usable size and form, but it will hopefully lead to something similar that can actually be worked with.

One of these days.

I think I found it.

“... then helps measure the material’s crystalline structure using the x-rays ..”

Is Queensland the Florida of Australia?

Andy, the Prime Minister, before he learned of the bloody outrage:

I was expecting someone to post this:

“...after the two girls got in a fight over cigarettes, and abused an elderly lady inside the shopping center.”