Most diamonds found in nature and often used in jewelry display a cubic crystal structure, a repeating pattern of 8 atoms forming a cube with carbon atoms at its vertices.

Figure 3 – Model of a diamond structure superimposed on the artificial diamond structure (as in Figure 1). The red spheres indicate the atoms in the crystal lattice of diamond or silicon; the grey ...

Diamond has long been regarded as the practical and theoretical hardness champion and has found uses ranging from industrial abrasives to a girl's best friend. Cubic boron nitride, a synthetic ...

The diamond structures were locked inside the Canyon Diablo meteorite, which slammed into Earth 50,000 years ago and was first discovered in Arizona in 1891. The diamonds in this meteorite aren't ...

Rare diamonds found in meteorites called ureilites have a folded hexagonal structure. Learning the process of how they were formed could inspire better lab-grown diamonds.

The stable form of carbon at room temperature is Graphite which has a hexagonal crystal structure. (Top diagram) Diamond is metastable at room temperature and has a diamond cubic crystal structure.

New research suggests it contains never-before-seen diamond crystal structures. (Image credit: Terryfic3D/Getty) ... The carbon atoms within these diamonds are arranged in cubic shapes.

Structure: Unlike traditional diamonds with a cubic crystalline structure, this newly synthesized diamond, known as lonsdaleite, possesses a hexagonal crystal structure. Origin: First discovered ...

Although the team probed carbon structures at unprecedented pressures of around 2,000 gigapascals (about 5 times the pressure found at Earth’s core), the crystal structure remained in a diamond ...

Like diamond, lonsdaleite is made up of carbon atoms, but they are arranged into a hexagonal crystal structure instead of a cubic one. "Lonsdaleite is very puzzling," Asimow told Live Science.

DIAMOND is generally thought to be one of the most perfect crystals occurring naturally: its atomic structure was first investigated in the very early days of X-ray crystal analysis. It turned out ...