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Re:Gallium nitride is about to disrupt silicon? by blacksmith_tb on Monday April 04, 2016 @06:40PM (#11426324)
It can also be quite pretty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissanite
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Re:Gallium nitride is about to disrupt silicon? by ribs on Monday April 04, 2016 @07:12PM (#11426518)
Difficult to machine, though, I'd expect, being among the hardest of all known substances (the moissanite polymorph being just a bit softer than diamond, at a Mohs scale hardness of 9.5.)
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