Scientists are still figuring out just how diamonds were formed in the Earth roughly one-to-three billion years ago. But while the research continues, if you wanted to give creating diamonds a try, maybe because you’re ready to take the next step in your relationship or you're looking for an investment, here’s a rough recipe.
First, it’s important to know that diamonds are made out of carbon.
So, start by burying carbon dioxide about 100-150 miles deep in the Earth’s mantle.
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Diamond in the Rough
A diamond is a collection of interconnected carbon atoms whose strong chemical bonds make the brilliant, super-hard crystals we know. Watch NC State University researchers create brighter, harder, magnetic diamonds with a few quick blasts of a powerful laser. See how by rearranging the chemical bonds in a diamond, they can quickly and cheaply make the new and improved Q-carbon.
Sensational Silt
Whether or not it is known by the proper name, we all know what silt can do.
Silt, deposited by the yearly flooding along the Nile River, created the rich and fertile soil of the Nile Delta that help the ancient Egyptians survive.
Ya Dig?
The more I learned about the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' discovery of the mystery dinosaur in Utah, the more amazed I became that the fossils were discovered at all.
That’s because while it is easy to find the full femur bone of a creature that lived 98 million years ago, it’s not that simple to spot a piece of a bone laying on the rocky ground.