Board Thread:Off-topic/@comment-26062541-20170113025355/@comment-26062541-20170113030011

Steven Bomb 17 wrote: It depends on how hard they are, diamonds for instance can be smashed by a hammer. If you drop any gemstone there's always a chance that it'll crack depending on how hard the surface is. Hm, interesting, and diamonds are at class 10 on the Mohs scale. I ask primarily as most sites that bring UP the scale don't go further into it, and as both an SU fan as well as amateur gemologist it gets...irksome.