Originally posted by Josh_Alexander
I only use Diamond because it's one of the Earth's strongest materials. Uru is definitely stronger than anything Earth has to offer.Well you're right, but in this case we are talking about thousands of kelvins in difference between diamonds and Uru.
And change in states of matter is related to how strong the bond structures are.
It shatters easier than other materials though. It's very hard to scratch though.
Anyway there are materials with extremely high melting points but are very weak to breakage. For example, salt is such a material. So melting point does not always correlate to strength.
And I stated if something is shown to melt something doesn't mean that a lower temperature can not. I gave a plausible reason why a neutron star is used as a forge.