What Causes Diamonds To Erupt? Scientists Crack the Code
New findings hold the potential to spark future diamond discoveries. An international team of scientists, led by the University of Southampton, has found that the…
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Diamonds That Formed Deep in the Earth Could Help Explain Earthquake Mystery
What Can Deep Diamonds Tell Us About Deep Earthquakes? Diamonds that formed deep in the Earth could help seismologists answer a decades-old question: could fluids…
New Ultrahard Diamond Glass Synthesized Using Carbon Buckyballs
It is the hardest known glass with the highest thermal conductivity among all glass materials. Carnegie’s Yingwei Fei and Lin Wang were part of an…
A New Mineral – From Deep Inside the Earth – Discovered in a Diamond
For the first time, a high-pressure calcium silicate perovskite (CaSiO3) has been identified as a naturally occurring mineral from Earth’s lower mantle, researchers report. The…
First-Ever Interior Earth Mineral Discovered in Nature – It Shouldn’t Be Here
New mineral from Earth’s lower mantle surfaced as diamond inclusion; study led by UNLV geochemist Oliver Tschauner. UNLV geochemists have discovered a new mineral on…
New Glass and Synthetic Diamond Foundation for Nanostructures
Diamonds Are Forever: New Foundation for Nanostructures Devices smaller than the width of a human hair are key to technologies for drug delivery, semiconductors, and…
Diamonds Are Like the Earth’s Champagne Corks
It has been demonstrated experimentally that a diamond’s trip from deep below the Earth’s surface must be very quick, since lab tests have shown that…
