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Physicists Develop Lab-Grown Diamond Tougher Than Natural Ones

Credit: PixabayScientists have once again created a synthetic diamond even tougher than natural ones, using a novel approach to diamond formation.By subjecting graphite—a super-hard material in its own right—to extreme pressure and heating it to 1,800 K (1,527 °C or 2,780 °F), the researchers produced a diamond with a hexagonal lattice structure instead of...