New mineral that shouldn’t exist at Earth’s surface found trapped in a diamond
Scientists never thought such a mineral could be found at the planet's surface.
Tag: diamond
Strongest glass in the world can scratch diamonds
AM-III also works as a semiconductor, allowing it to transfer electrical current.
Diamond battery powered by nuclear waste runs for 28,000 years
Would you use one in your phone though?
Canadian diamonds give researchers a glimpse into ancient continents
It's like "finding a missing piece of a puzzle."
Researchers devise fast, relatively cheap way of building diamonds
It's geology on fast forward.
Deep diamonds hint at Earth’s primordial magma
The magma has remained in place since dawn of our planet.
Travels in Geology — Arkansas: A geologic diamond in the rough
Ever wanted to dig your own diamonds? Well, now you have the chance.
There may be a quadrillion tons of diamond in the Earth’s depths — but we’ll never mine it
There's more diamonds than you can imagine.
Tiny diamond provides first evidence of Earth’s fourth most abundant mineral
The diamond rose 700 km from Earth's mantle to the surface.
Unexpected deep-Earth oxidized iron surprises geologists
Apparently, something is rusting at 550 km below the surface.
Diamond rain of Neptune and Uranus mimicked in the lab by scientists
Yes, on some planets it rains diamonds!
Huge, rare diamonds help us learn more about the Earth’s mantle
Diamonds are a geologist's best friends.
Evidence of water 1,000 kilometers under the surface found locked inside a diamond
Water isn't only skin deep.
New method developed to encode huge quantity of data in diamonds
Data is a girl's best friend.
Scientists find new phase of carbon at room-temp that’s harder than diamond
To make diamonds, the industry typically resorts to subjecting graphite to immense pressure and temperature, which makes production volumes low ...
Rock with 30,000 diamonds found Russian diamond mine
Do you fancy diamonds? If the answer is 'yes', then you'll absolutely love this rock extracted from a Russian mine. ...
Ultrathin diamond-like thread could help build elevator to space
Artist impression of a possible space elevator - the image in question show the new diamond-like nanomaterial in action, though. ...
Temperature control and monitoring achieved at the cellular level
Temperature is an important physical parameter which greatly influences a system. Monitoring and/or manipulating this state parameter with great accuracy ...
Russia declassifies diamond deposit – trillions of carats, enough for the entire world for 3.000 years
Russia announced the declassification of a huge diamond deposit, twice as hard as average ones, and about 10 times bigger ...
A candle’s flame burns millions of diamond nano-particles every second
Diamonds are for a nano-second - in the glitter of a candle light, that is. In a stroke of brilliance, ...
The star-diamond
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in ...
Crystal That Nature May Have Missed
For a lot of time man kind or at least a big part of it has been absolutely fascinated with ...