My friend was saying that diamond is a type of condensed coal,that is why we get diamonds from coal mines. is that true?
2006-06-13 04:10:19 · 15 answers · asked by nasha098 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Diamonds and coal have the same basic component, carbon. Diamonds have been turned into their current form due to extreme pressure and temperature. Diamonds come from diamond mines, not coal mines.
2006-06-13 04:13:45 · answer #1 · answered by Flyboy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Diamonds and coal are made of same element -Carbon. Only the arrangement of atoms is different. In diamond they are arranged in particular pattern.
Diamonds can be created out of coal. They are supposed to have been created naturally in earth when coal or carbon got subjected to extreme preassure and temperature conditions
They have been made out of coal/carbon artifically. A portion of this demand is now being met by synthetic diamonds, man-made diamonds which have similar properties to natural diamonds. This process has historically produced industrial-grade diamonds, but synthetic diamond producers have recently begun to produce diamonds with high enough quality to penetrate the gem diamond market. Diamonds have been manufactured synthetically for over fifty years.
refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond to see a rotating animation of diamond structure and get other details
2006-06-13 11:27:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coal is a carbon which under enough heat and pressure will become a Diamond.
Yes Diamond's atomic structure is of carbon.
The reason why coal disintregrate easily is because it's atomic structure is loosely connected.
2006-06-13 11:20:52 · answer #3 · answered by gdfella2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kind of. Coal and diamonds are both made up solely of carbon atoms, but they are in a different arrangment for each, allowing the diamond to pack tighter.
2006-06-13 11:13:04 · answer #4 · answered by theloniouszen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black diamonds are a type of coal. But I always thought a diamond is a mineral rock.
2006-06-13 11:17:16 · answer #5 · answered by goodbye 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well yes it can be defined as a type of coal. the coal is followed by graphite older and the atoms are better ordered by high underground pressure and heat and the last is diamond due to highest pressure, heat and time underground.
the atoms are perfectely ordered compared to any other coal product and it has a higer weight.
2006-06-13 11:43:11 · answer #6 · answered by Prof. Hubert Farnsworth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diamonds and coal are examples of allotropes, different molecular configurations of an element, in this case carbon. Graphite is another example but carbon has lots of other allotropes.
2006-06-13 11:19:21 · answer #7 · answered by MC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they are both made up of carbon, but diamond is has a crystalline structure while coal is amorphous.
2006-06-20 04:16:46 · answer #8 · answered by dartmadscientist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
diamonds are what happens to coal if enough pressure is applied to it over many many many years. it is not a type of coal, it is however a derivitave of coal
2006-06-13 11:17:44 · answer #9 · answered by Exodus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
diamond is made out of pure Carbon. Coal is some sort of hydra-Carbon or something which really is some sort of Carbon based molecule.
2006-06-13 11:17:02 · answer #10 · answered by terreaston 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋