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Mike Wehner
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Diamonds are precious. They're valued for their beauty but they also have some incredible real-world applications. Thanks to its incredible hardness, diamond is often used to line blades and other tools, and while those industrial-quality diamonds aren't the same kind you'd find on a wedding ring, they're still strong, pricey, and valuable. Scientists have long imagined a day when they could create artificial diamonds that are actually stronger than natural ones, and as a new research paper reveals, they may be rapidly approaching that milestone.
The study, which was published in the journal Physical Review B, describes the creation of six-sided diamond crystals that have long eluded scientists. Natural diamonds have a cubic crystal structure, and while six-sided or hexagonal diamonds have been found rarely in nature (like at the site of meteorite impacts), creating them in a lab has proven next to impossible.
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