This story centers on a rare mineral encased in a diamond, a substance that could never survive on the planet's surface without its protective casing. In the 1980s, miners in Botswana's Orapa mine ...

and that investigators have been misled into regarding as diamond various transparent, singly-refracting minerals which happen to be very resistant to chemical reagents”.

Graphite is also made of carbon atoms, but with a different arrangement—explaining why diamond is the hardest mineral and graphite (used in pencil lead) is one of the softest. Rubies are formed ...

Diamond is considered to be the most precious and expensive gem in the world. But if we tell you that diamond is not the most ...

The way they date diamonds is typically looking at inclusions of other minerals in the diamond that can be radioactively dated. The diamonds themselves can't be dated. But if the mineral ...

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I’m squinting at a diamond in the palm of my hand ... “I hope that we will discover a new mineral,” he says. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up ...

The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the sum of the diluted earnings per share from continuing operations ...

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