Harder Than Diamond? The New Hexagonal Diamond Breakthrough
EP 38
·12:32

The meteorite origin of lonsdaleite

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12:32and meteors are made a lot of out of carbon. There's a lot of carbon in meteors. >> Right. >> When they hit the Earth at this incredible velocity, with incredible pressure, there's incredible heat, perhaps the carbon is going to form a weird allotrope. >> Mhm. >> And so, in 1967 um a paper came out again in nature Lonsdaleite, a hexagonal polymorph of diamond. They're saying that they found that hexagonal polymorph that was suggested in theory >> Mhm. >> 5 years ago. >> Mhm. >> Right? They named it Lonsdaleite and just a brief sort of

13:12digression into why Lonsdaleite. It's

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