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Diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth. This fact would likely pass muster at your local trivia night, but scientists ...

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Chinese scientists have successfully developed a high-quality “super diamond” in the laboratory, exhibiting a hardness far greater than natural diamonds. This breakthrough holds significant ...

Most natural and synthetic diamonds have a cubic structure but ultra-hard diamonds, also known as lonsdaleite, have a hexagonal crystal structure. Previously, the hardest diamonds were found only ...

But under the right circumstances, carbon can arrange itself hexagonally, forming a hardier material known as lonsdaleite. We know about the existence of lonsdaleite thanks to a meteorite impact ...

A joint team from Jilin University and Sun Yat-sen University announced the discovery on Feb 10, saying they successfully synthesized millimetersized lonsdaleite from graphite under extreme heat ...

Lonsdaleite, for example, is a type of diamond that was first discovered in 1967 in the Canyon Diablo meteorite and boasts a hexagonal lattice structure. The lab-grown diamond in question is of ...

However, a rarer hexagonal structure is even stronger. This form, called lonsdaleite, is usually found in meteorite impact sites. Scientists have struggled to create pure samples in labs.