Why Diamond Armor Would Suck in Real Life

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Why Diamond Armor Would Suck in Real Life:
So if you’re like me, you grew up playing video games and one of the most popular games was Minecraft. At least back when I used to play it, the strongest armor in the game was diamond armor more than twice as durable as iron or chainmail armor. But when you think about it, diamond armor would actually be pretty horrible.

Diamonds are known for being one of the hardest materials on Earth, coming in at a 10 on the Mohs hardness scale. And this is where people start to think that diamond armor would be nearly indestructible. But that’s because most people don’t understand what ‘hard’ really means in terms of crystalline structure.

Diamond armor would actually be really brittle. Since all the carbon atoms are lined up very exactly, you create these empty planes going through the crystal, so if a sword hit just the right spot, it could slice straight through this plane. By comparison, any less 'hard' metals like iron or copper would be much better as armor because when hit by a force they bend/dent absorbing the force (as opposed to diamond that would just shatter).

So yeah, while Minecraft may be fun, it doesn’t do the best at teaching some basic physics to its players.

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You used ceramic as an example, but the best ballistic body armor today actually uses ceramic plates. Could you make a diamond plate and put it in a plate carrier to stop bullets?

SeymourLolis

Might be a little heavy but you gonna stylin in that diamond armor

coolkid

me, an intellect: glues 500 million diamonds together and the glue absorbs the shock while the diamonds are padded and protecting the glue, and if you use super glue it will be really really freaking good

deucel

0:03 “don’t let peta see this”

But dosent peta do the exact same thing?

SigmundOrthodoxy

This channel is better than the info show

It's not even a comparison, seriously the info show would have made a 20 min video explaining it and this guy explains it extremely well in 3 minutes

deadliftalot

WAIT HOW DOES THIS NOT HAVE LIKE 2 MILLION VIEWS????

ShogunSRT

He made the ceramic comparison, but ceramic is actually used in armor. However, it isn't used on its own. It's usually a part of composite armor, such as that found on armored vehicles. The fact that it shatters is actually a huge strength, even though it limits how many uses it has. This dissipates the energy of incoming projectiles and the resulting fragments disrupt its path. So in theory, diamond could work as a component of composite armor, but obviously expense is still an issue.

RedVRCC

Not with Binders. Bullet proof vests with "Hard" ceramic inserts Crush bullets. A diamond armor plate over a tight binding would make an excellent armor.

spikedpsycho

0:29 A full suit of armor doesn't weigh 20, 000 lb.! If it weighed 20, 000 lb., you wouldn't be able to move or if you fell, you'd probably be crushed under your own weight! Yes, a full suit of steel armor would be quite heavy, but it's only about 50 - 60 lb. and its weight is distributed across the entire body, which is what makes it fairly nimble and optimal for combat. Even jousting armor can only weigh as much as 110 lb. as it's intending for jousting and not hand-to-hand combat.
What the hell are you talking about?

kaydebastion

The closest thing to ancient debris is Platinum. How would netherrite armor fair?

trollfake

Diamonds are less dense than steel, how do you come up with your number for the weight?

Afrothoz

If the dog is made out of diamonds than how is it hard to beat it can’t be fast cause it’s mega heavy and diamonds are hard but their brittle so technically all you need is a hammer to break it but as a character said “unless something supernatural happens we’ll be fine”

adhirmanandhar

well in real life people aren't wearing full plate body armor lol. It would need to be something similar to a ceramic plate for a plate carrier.

Onticly

Flawless sheets of diamond can actually be mass produced in labs. They just aren't because DeBeers has a monopoly. Actually the price of diamonds in general is massively inflated from what they should be. They aren't nearly as rare as we're led to believe. It would suck for armor though either way. It'd make great wafers for computing though.

Velisatra

How about instead of a big piece of diamond armor they are little individual pieces of diamond creating armor like chain armor will that make the armor better than iron armor in real life?

diamondpro