Or the hardest materials in general. I mean, doesn’t the process require one material to be harder than the one that’s being machined? But if you’re machining the toughest material there is, how does it work?
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No one really machines diamonds, They are hard but they break pretty easy at convenient straight lines. So we shape them by making them break along their natural planes. No one is really out there carving diamonds into things. There ARE materials harder than diamonds and ways to ablate things that aren’t solid surfaces that could machine a diamond but we just don’t really have tons of really giant diamonds sitting around we want to make into complex shapes. So we just use them in cut or dust form.
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