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- noun inorganic chemistry Any
boride containing two atoms ofboron
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After handing Button the rhenium diboride button, White proceeded to perform a number of songs to Hotel Maya's delighted patrons-including Button's girlfriend Jessica Michibata, pictured above-among them the third single from the album Elephant:
Jalopnik 2009
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The button is made of rhenium diboride-a synthetic super-hard material discovered in 2007-and it is harder than diamond: along certain dimensions, it scores 10+ on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.
Jalopnik 2009
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After handing Button the rhenium diboride button, White proceeded to perform a number of songs to Hotel Maya's delighted patrons-including Button's girlfriend Jessica Michibata, pictured above-among them the third single from the album Elephant:
Jalopnik 2009
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The button is made of rhenium diboride-a synthetic super-hard material discovered in 2007-and it is harder than diamond: along certain dimensions, it scores 10+ on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.
Jalopnik 2009
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While all fields of superconducting phenomena are dealt with in detail, this new edition pays particular attention to the groundbreaking discovery of magnesium diboride and the current developments in this field.
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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Nicknamed BAM, the material exhibited exceptional hardness, and the research has expanded to include titanium-diboride alloys as well.
Museum Blogs 2008
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