Does anyone know about carbon being turned into diamonds?

Answer 1

Diamonds are formed from carbon under intense pressure deep within the earth. They are found within the Kimberlite layer.

"These diamonds have been carried to the surface in a few places by violent eruptions caused by the release of active fluids, probably mainly water, in the hot rocks of the upper mantle. The combination of these fluids and the perioditic and eclogitic rocks corrode their way toward the surface and regions of lower pressure, creating dikes and sills and eventually breaking out in hot, turbulent jets that reach the surface in carrot-shaped pipes called diatremes, carrying with them fragments of mantle rocks and rocks dislodged in their ascent, all in a hot, fluidized mass. Most of these eruptions have occurred in the last billion years, typically in the lower Palaeozoic (Devonian), but apparently none since the Cretaceous. The chaotic filling of a diatreme is the soft, easily eroded rock called Kimberlite or Lamproite, typically enriched in potassium, which is otherwise quite rare in such rocks. This is not the only way for diamonds to reach the surface, but it is the principal way, and all commercial diamonds come this way. These diatremes occur in stable craton regions of ancient rocks (because the diamonds were made beneath such regions when they were more active). They can be a half-mile in diameter, and are not rare.

Erosion of the kimberlite pipes frees the heavy diamonds from the matrix, and they join the bed load of streams that drain the area, winding up in alluvial deposits that may have been worked more than once. Diamonds, of course, are extremely durable. All ancient diamonds were found in alluvial deposits, as in India or Burma."

Answer 2

Under extreme pressure carbon becomes diamond. I think there are about five forms of pure carbon that they have discovered so far...it's an allotropic (or allophatic, I get the two words mixed up) element meaning that it can be found in more than one pure state. There are actually some places where you can take somebody's cremated remains and have those pressurized into diamonds.

Answer 3

sure it is where diamonds come from. Under great pressure and heat, over a very long time, carbon becomes diamonds.

They are processes that can be used to manufacture diamonds now, although they are still not considered to be as valuable as mined.

Answer 4

Carbon turns into coal.After millions of years of extreme pressure it turns into diamonds.

Answer 5

take your pencil to a the mouth of an active volcano or bury your pencil 100,000 yards deep...then wait for 2 million years. then, chadaaa! You'll have a diamond in the size of a pencil!

p.s. ask your great great great great... to mark the place wher you buried your pencil.

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

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