The film discusses the significance of carbon, highlighting its presence in 90% of known compounds and its various forms, such as diamond and graphite. It explains the atomic structure of carbon, ...

Diamond stands up to a squeeze. Surprisingly, the material’s structure persists even when compressed to 2 trillion pascals, more than five times the pressure in Earth’s core, scientists report January ...

In brief: Chinese researchers have developed a synthetic diamond that is significantly harder and more resilient than those that occur naturally here on Earth. If commercially viable, the new diamond ...

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.

Andrew Tomkins receives funding from the Australia Research Council. Alan Salek receives a RSS Scholarship. Dougal McCulloch receives funding from Australian Research Council. Monash University ...