Hardness of Metals Chart

[RB140]

If you did manage to make mercury a solid what kid of cutter would you need to machine it yet what would you make out of it

[Astronowanabe]

-37.89℉ seems a little below ROOM TEMP to me

I guess they are counting that Igloos are rooms too

[Lee Cordochorea]

If you did manage to make mercury a solid what kid of cutter would you need to machine it yet what would you make out of it

I would clean up a casting and bring it in to spec. Duh. (Just use lots of liquid nitrogen as a coolant when cutting. Ha!)

[darryl]

Interesting table- but where's boron nitride? Or- what was it that is supposedly harder than diamond?

[PStechPaul]

(Buckminster)Fullerene, or "Bucky Balls". Also made of Carbon.

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/harder-diamonds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhard_material

https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat1288

https://interestingengineering.com/crystal-58-harder-than-diamond