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Covalent Crystals
Cubic boron nitride
Cubic boron nitride adopts a crystal structure, which can be constructed by replacing every two carbon atoms in diamond with one boron atom and one nitrogen atom. Cubic boron nitride is the second-hardest material, after diamond.
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