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Subject: What would happen if you shot a piece of chalk at a diamond at mach 7?

Date: Thu Mar 15 16:04:20 2007
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If weak material like chalk impacted strong material like diamond at an
*extremely* high speed like thousands of miles an hour, would the chalk simply
explode? Or would the diamond explode? Would the chalk punch a clean hole
through it and keep moving? Assume the diamond is larger than the chalk and that
there is no air resistance.


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