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Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Diamond
- Mineral.category
- Native minerals
- Mineral.image
- Rough Diamond.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.alt
- An irregular shaped brownish diamond
- Mineral.caption
- A rough diamond
- Mineral.formula
- C
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Dia
- Mineral.strunz
- 1.CB.10a
- Mineral.dana
- 1.3.6.1
- Mineral.color
- Typically yellow, brown, or gray to colorless. Less often blue, green, black, translucent white, pink, violet, orange, purple, and red.
- Mineral.habit
- Octahedral
Article
45 sectionsContents
- Etymology, earliest use and composition discovery
- Properties
- Thermodynamics
- Crystal structure
- Crystal habit
- Mechanical
- Hardness
- Toughness
- Yield strength
- [[Elasticity (physics)|Elasticity]] and [[tensile strength]]
- Electrical conductivity
- Surface property
- Chemical stability
- Color
- Clarity
- Fluorescence
- Thermal conductivity
- Geology
- Surface distribution
- Exploration
- Ages
- Origin in mantle
- Carbon sources
- Formation and growth
- Transport to the surface
- Double diamonds
- In space
- Industry
- Gem-grade diamonds
- Cutting
- Marketing
- Industrial-grade diamonds
- Mining
- Political issues
- Synthetics, simulants, and enhancements
- Synthetics
- Simulants
- Enhancements
- Identification
- See also
- Notes
- Citations
- General and cited references
- Further reading
- External links
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Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is a tasteless, odorless, strong, brittle solid, a poor conductor of electricity, colorless in pure form, and insoluble in water. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon at room temperature and pressure, but diamond is metastable and converts to it at a negligible rate under those conditions. Diamond has the highest hardness and thermal conductivity of any natural material, properties that are used in major industrial applications such as cutting and polishing tools.