"There are 3 substanc
es harder than diamond (see link) although one of them is some kind of diamond-like derivative.
After those 3 (or 4) the following ones are
aluminium diboride
zirconium carbide
sapphire
ruby
alumina (for the record, sapphire and ruby are variety of alumina)
carbium
boron carbide
silicon carbide
titanium carbide
beryllium carbide
borazon
stishovite
tantalum carbide
tungsten carbide
corundum
tantalum nitride
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