The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the difference? Researchers are finding out. How molten carbon crystallizes into ...

A team of researchers has for the first time observed and recorded the creation of hexagonal diamond under shock compression, revealing crucial details about how it is formed. The discovery could help ...

IT was shown by Seal 1 that little change was produced by heating natural diamond powders to 1,200° C. in a vacuum (10 −4 mm. mercury) for periods of 15–30 min. Heating the powders to 2,000° C.

Discuss the implication of growing diamonds: In the NOVA scienceNOW video segment, Neil visits a "diamond farm"—a secret location where the diamonds are "chemically, physically, and optically ...

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A glow-in-the dark, magnetic, stronger-than-diamond material might be a bizarre new form of carbon. Scientists call it Q-carbon. After diamond and graphite, it’s the third known solid phase, or form, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 2008, pieces of diamond encased in rock descended from space and landed in the Nubian Desert ...

Molten carbon can crystallize into diamond or graphite, but it has been difficult to study this process. New simulations show that graphite can sometimes "hijack" the pathway that would lead to ...