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There are various ways to create artificial diamonds, but a new method developed by researchers, including those at the ...
The diamonds are then dispersed throughout the earth’s crust, where they can be found for billions of years. Scientists estimate that all of the naturally occurring diamonds sold commercially ...
In adamantane, the carbon atoms are in the right diamond-like arrangement, but each carbon is capped with hydrogen atoms. As ...
Diamonds Unearthed In the first installment of a multi-part series, Smithsonian diamond expert Jeffrey Post explains how the rare crystals form ...
New findings explain how the world's biggest and most-valuable diamonds formed -- from metallic liquid deep inside Earth's mantle. The research team studied large gem diamonds like the world ...
Most diamonds form from fluids deep inside Earth’s interior that contain carbonate compounds, new research suggests.
Eclogitic diamonds formed in Earth's mantle originate from oceanic crust, rather than marine sediments as commonly thought, according to a new study from University of Alberta geologists.
The world’s largest source of natural diamonds — and of more than 90 percent of all natural pink diamonds found so far — may have formed due to the breakup of Earth’s first supercontinent ...
Diamonds Unearthed In the first installment of a multi-part series, Smithsonian diamond expert Jeffrey Post explains how the rare crystals form ...