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 ...

(Nanowerk News) A new study by Washington State University researchers answers longstanding questions about the formation of a rare type of diamond during major meteorite strikes. Hexagonal diamond or ...

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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 ...