Would coal turn into a diamond over time if it was exposed to extream heat and pressure?

Answer 1

That's pretty much the DEFINITION of a diamond, so yes, it would

Answer 2

Yes, heat and pressure. But volcanic heat, hot enoufg to melt rock:
Roughly 49% of diamonds originate from central and southern Africa, although significant sources of the mineral have been discovered in Canada, India, Russia, Brazil, and Australia. They are mined from kimberlite and lamproite volcanic pipes, which brought to the surface the diamond crystals from deep in the Earth where the high pressure and temperature enables the formation of the crystals.

Answer 3

Yes, and the technology is available today. In fact, in 1955, GE made a machine that could, using extreme heat and pressure, make carbon into diamond. The resulting gem was not very good for jewelry, but could have been made into a tool blade.

Answer 4

Yes. Coal is amorphous Carbon. Diamond is crystalline Carbon. With enough heat, pressure, and time it can be done. But there are easier ways to make diamond such as chemical vapor deposition.

Answer 5

yes. but that doesn't mean you can pop a piece of charcoal off the grill into the toaster and make diamonds, you need natural coal, not charcoal, and lots of it, to make a diamond. they actually make the ashes of the deceased into diamonds, for the incredibly rich. the thing is, it costs more to do than the diamond is actually worth.

Answer 6

Yes, you've just got to shout at the coal and say "If you don't get your act together, I'm leaving you!" That really puts the pressure on it and it'll turn into diamonds immediately.

Answer 7

Yes.

Carbon has two crystalline modifications: graphite and diamond.
In thermodynamic equlibrium the stable phase is
graphite under pressures less than 20,000 atm,
and diamod above 20,000 atm.
Diamonds in earrings are metastabe, and, in principle,
may spontaneously turn into ash.

"Exterme heat" increases the speed of conversion,
but otherwise is bad, because increase in temperature
shifts equlibrium in favor of graphite.

Answer 8

That is the process that carbon goes through in the formation of a diamond.

Answer 9

Yes. That is how diamonds are made.

Answer 10

no because the component of coal is not attractive at the diamonds components and also the coal is made up of wood and oxygen