It melts at 3727 C. The stable form of carbon at room temperature is Graphite which has a hexagonal crystal structure. (Top diagram) Diamond is metastable at room temperature and has a diamond cubic ...

Physicists have successfully created a lab-grown diamond with a hardness exceeding that of natural diamonds. By subjecting ...

Goodtzow (NATURE, 119, 494; 1927), that quenched carbon steels contain a phase with a tetragonal crystal structure, which might be considered as a deformation of the body-centred cubic structure ...

Zinc sulphide exists with two different crystal structures, the cubic zinc blend (top diagram) and the hexagonal Wurtzite (lower diagram). In the zinc blend structure the sulphur ions form an fcc ...

The cubic structure of NaCl is not a mere coincidence ... where the interplay of natural forces creates both the striking ...

Most natural and synthetic diamonds feature a cubic lattice structure but ... in the Canyon Diablo meteorite and boasts a hexagonal lattice structure. The lab-grown diamond in question is of ...