What's stronger, ceramics or stainless steel? If you guessed the former, you'd be correct! Kyocera's 'Fine Ceramics (Advanced Ceramics)' are known for their extreme hardness; making them incredibly valuable for high-performance applications, such as industrial cutting tools for milling and grinding metals.
How a material's hardness is determined by measuring the size of an indentation made by a sharp diamond pressed strongly onto a material specimen.
For context, the hardness of alumina ceramics is nearly three times that of stainless steel; silicon carbide is more than four times harder than stainless steel. This extreme hardness is one of many unique properties that makes Kyocera's Fine Ceramics "super materials" for modern technology.
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https://global.kyocera.com/fcworld/charact/strong/hardness.html
How a material's hardness is determined by measuring the size of an indentation made by a sharp diamond pressed strongly onto a material specimen.
For context, the hardness of alumina ceramics is nearly three times that of stainless steel; silicon carbide is more than four times harder than stainless steel. This extreme hardness is one of many unique properties that makes Kyocera's Fine Ceramics "super materials" for modern technology.
Check out the link before for more info.
https://global.kyocera.com/fcworld/charact/strong/hardness.html
