2007-06-29 16:38:47 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
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2007-06-29 16:41:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
A diamond is one form of the element carbon. When you have a question like this, go to Yahoo search, Google, or Wikipedia for an answer.
2007-06-29 23:45:27 · answer #2 · answered by flylow000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surprisingly, a diamond is, like coal and graphite, made up of Carbon, but now arranged in such a packed way to form crystals. The secret is in the bonding pattern.
2007-06-29 23:43:44 · answer #3 · answered by Dulce D 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Diamonds are made of carbon
2007-06-29 23:48:57 · answer #4 · answered by for_shits_and_giggles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a diamond first step is peat moss from there the pressure of the earth forms it into coal then the coal is put under more pressure for a thousand years the when it is dug up the coal has been transformed into a diamond.
2007-07-03 13:09:16 · answer #5 · answered by wolf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A diamond is made from carbon. So is coal.
2007-06-29 23:41:51 · answer #6 · answered by 3teacher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A diamond, I am told, was just once an old chunk of coal.
2007-06-29 23:41:03 · answer #7 · answered by peace baby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pure carbon, under intense pressure and heat over time makes a diamond
2007-06-29 23:40:40 · answer #8 · answered by Kristenite’s Back! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is an isotope of a carbon (C), similar to Boart, Booart & Carbonado that undergoes much pressure, having a molecular weight of 12.01 gm & its physical properties:
Color: Colorless, White, Gray, Black, Blue.
Density: 3.5 - 3.53, Average = 3.51
Diaphaniety: Transparent to Subtransparent to translucent
Fracture: Conchoidal - Fractures developed in brittle materials characterized by smoothly curving surfaces, (e.g. quartz).
Habit: Euhedral Crystals - Occurs as well-formed crystals showing good external form.
Habit: Granular - Generally occurs as anhedral to subhedral crystals in matrix.
Hardness: 10 - Diamond
Luminescence: Fluorescent.
Luster: Adamantine
Streak: colorless
...for short, it is made up of pure carbon..its an isotope of carbon..
hope this helps....
2007-06-30 00:30:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carbon. It's basically a railway freight car load of coal crompressed and crystalized over millions of years in a dead volcanic core.
2007-06-29 23:42:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Compressed carbon.
2007-06-29 23:42:39 · answer #11 · answered by underfear18 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋