what makes a rock or metal or any other hard substances hard? As in, why is rock hard?

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Maybe a rock’s atoms are closer together or something?

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It’s a mixture of type of material/materials it is made of and the exact mixture/composition of everything and time and pressure applied to it. Like graphite, cubic zirconia and diamonds all made up of carbon but their molecular structure varies due to time, pressure, etc.

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