Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conventional diamond, called cubic diamond, is known as the hardest substance in the world. But researchers think hexagonal ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists report creating pure hexagonal diamond, resolving a long debate about the rare meteorite mineral lonsdaleite. (CREDIT: ...
Researchers in China say they have produced hexagonal diamond, a long-disputed form of carbon that theory predicts could be ...
The graphite-diamond phase transition is of particular interest for fundamental reasons and a wide range of applications. In new experiments, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists ...
Mysterious hexagonal diamonds that don’t occur naturally on Earth have been discovered in four meteorites in north-west Africa. “It’s really exciting because there were some people in the field who ...
Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...