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Diamond, the best friend of women & the most coveted of all gems, has been doing the rounds for billions of years now. The precious stone carries an unmatched sparkling glory and speak of invaluable ...

Tomorrow's lasers may come with a bit of bling, thanks to a new technology that uses man-made diamonds to enhance the power and capabilities of lasers. Researchers have now demonstrated the first ...

KILLEEN, Texas, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A new technique using lasers could be employed to identify so-called conflict gemstones, identifying their country of origin, U.S. researchers say. In a test, the ...

A study on the diamond formation titled 'Diamond formation kinetics in shock-compressed C─H─O samples recorded by small-angle x-ray scattering and x-ray diffraction' has been published in the journal ...

Physicists have used the world's most powerful laser to zap diamonds. The results, they say, could tell us more about the cores of giant planets. "Diamonds have very special properties, besides being ...

In this work, we demonstrate that ultraviolet (UV) laser photolysis of hydrocarbon species alters the flame chemistry such that it promotes the diamond growth rate and film quality. Optical emission ...

A laser blast produces miniature diamonds from plain-old plastic. That’s right, the same kind used in soda bottles. When squeezed to about a million times Earth’s atmospheric pressure and heated to ...