The rarest material on Earth ‘isn’t’ a diamond: Scientists reveal new evidence changing how we think about ‘rare’
It doesn’t take much imagination for a spacecraft drifting past Neptune to imagine diamonds forming in its atmosphere. Deep within the ice giant, carbon compounds are squeezed under pressure, breaking molecular bonds and reorganizing atoms into crystalline structures. Scientists have been simulating this “diamond rain” for decades in laboratory experiments and planetary simulations, and missions … Read more