Sentences with phrase «diamonds forming from»

«That means if you take the pressure off, it will stay metallic, similar to the way diamonds form from graphite under intense heat and pressure, but remains a diamond when that pressure and heat is removed.»

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The handrails inside the diamond jubilee state coach are made from Royal Yacht Britannia timber and a wooden crown covered in gold leaf, which forms the centrepiece of the roof's decorations, was carved from oak from Nelson's flagship HMS Victory.

The shield is formed from stainless steel with a 24K gold - plated cross and round cut diamond.

That's at least 100 times larger than the nanodiamonds that form when planetary objects collide, and it's far larger than diamonds that form by condensing from carbon vapor inside clouds of interplanetary gas and dust.

As the diamond crystals form, they can enclose tiny amounts of fluid or rock from their surroundings.

Current thinking is that these tiny diamonds can form in three ways: enormous pressure shockwaves from high - energy collisions between the meteorite «parent body» and other space objects; deposition by chemical vapor; or, finally, the «normal» static pressure inside the parent body, like most diamonds on Earth.

Using transmission electron microscopy, EPFL scientists have examined a slice from a meteorite that contains large diamonds formed at high pressure.

DEEP DEVELOPMENT Diamonds (dark grey) begin to form from minerals containing iron and magnesium (white) and from carbon - oxygen compounds called carbonates (light grey) in a scanning electron microscope image.

The results presented in this experiment is the first unambiguous observation of high - pressure diamond formation from mixtures and agree with theoretical predictions about the conditions under which such precipitation can form and will provide scientists with better information to describe and classify other worlds.

Researchers at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and University of British Columbia recently analyzed diamonds from the Museum's collection and learned how an unusual chunk of Africa formed.

As photosynthesis favours the lighter isotope, carbon 12, over the heavier carbon 13, this «light» ratio finding suggests that organic material from biological sources may have been more abundant in diamond - forming zones early in the Earth's history than we find today,» explained Suzette Timmerman, lead author on the study.

This is a symmetrical reaction — because the pressure is coming from all sides, every part of the graphite shifts in the same way to form diamond.

Most diamonds excavated from the Earth's surface formed at depths of less than 125 miles (200 km), but others, such as the Juina diamonds, have yielded rare, superdeep diamonds.

Using diamond anvil cells (DAC), the team applied 2.5 GPa of pressure (25 thousand atmospheres) to pre-compress water into the room - temperature ice VII, a cubic crystalline form that is different from «ice - cube» hexagonal ice, in addition to being 60 percent denser than water at ambient pressure and temperature.

Margi Jenks, park interpreter, explained: Diamonds are remnants of carbon dioxide pockets from when our planet formed.

Geologists are still guessing how diamonds formed in the Earth from 1 billion to 3 billion years ago, according to a recent study in the journal Nature, but they think the recipe follows something like this:

The results presented in this experiment are the first unambiguous observation of high - pressure diamond formation from mixtures and agree with theoretical predictions about the conditions under which such precipitation can form and will provide scientists with better information to describe and classify other worlds.

When the high pressure is applied to the plastic, the carbon atoms separate themselves from the plastic and clump together, forming diamonds.

The DBM derives its name from the white markings along the back of the forewings which when folded form a diamond shaped pattern.

Water may be more common than expected at extreme depths approaching 640 kilometres and possibly beyond — within Earth's lower mantle, says a study that explored microscopic pockets of a trapped form of crystallised water molecules in a sampling of diamonds from around the world.

It entailed hanging completely upside down, our heads inches from the ground, and the soles of our feet touching so our legs formed a diamond shape.

They range from the gorgeous and functional «Form» collection to the platinum and diamond - studded, three - thousand dollar Little Eternity (Think of it as an addition to your investment portfolio).

An alligator skin NATO - style strap and a ring of baguette - cut diamonds on white gold form a surprising partnership in the new J12 - G10 from Chanel.

The Claire Shower Curtain from Madison Park features a unique pattern with small leaf prints inside a larger diamond patter that forms a crisscross design.

It comes in all sorts of forms and levels of wattage: from blinding highlighters that could be seen from the next county over, to sparkle - packed liquid lipsticks that give you a diamond sheen, to glitter - bombed eyeshadow pans, to illuminating face moisturizers, there's a huge market for the shimmer - obsessed.

Marrying stylish coupe lines with the freedom of movement the SUV genre gives, the Eclipse Cross» beautiful, dynamic form serves to bring about the same sense of excitement and inspiration as the diamond ring seen immediately before and after a total solar eclipse does,» states the press release from Mitsubishi.

Further specification included: - 10 spoke diamond turned wheels with gloss black finish - Bang & Olufsen Beosound 1000W DBS audio system - Lightweight seats formed from Carbon Fibre and Kevlar - Obsidian Black alcantara headlining - Obsidian Black carpet - Magnum Silver bonnet meshes - Full length Piano Black facia trim - Polished alloy sill tread plates - Unique sill plaques based on a carbon theme This DBS Carbon Black edition we are delighted to offer was supplied new via Aston Martin Derby in 2010 and fitted with the Touchtronic 2 transmission.

Signified by a light blue diamond symbol, you'll usually need to find some form of clue to initiate a quest - this will sometimes be a note left in a house, or from an NPC in the world.

German artist Gerhard Richter has created Strontium, a large - scale mural for the new de Young derived from digitally - manipulated photographs, that together form a geometric black and white motif representing the atomic structure of strontium titanate, a synthetic substance often used to create artificial diamonds.

Both works are constructed with rhythmic, overlapping shaped canvas planes, strings and struts, using an abstracted lexicon of forms derived from crosses, diamonds, zigzags and arcs.

A necklace is formed from what appears to be an infinite, three - dimensional loop of alternating baguette - and brilliant - cut diamonds.

Frank Stella's Black Series II of lithographs works with the compositional forms of the artist's diamond - patterned Black Paintings from the late 1950s.

The curved forms and right angles used in these paintings were likely derived from the shape of a baseball field diamond.

These are a group of necklaces made from objects the artist found while walking around and are pinned to the wall beautifully in diamond forms, as though on display in a jewellers with a black matte background and well lit.

The artist later augmented his practice of inventing forms by seeking fresh inspiration and new motifs from a variety of unlikely sources, and in 1965 he began a series of paintings depicting tents and tent - like forms the artist called «diamonds».

In successive series of paintings, he introduced subtle changes into geometric forms that evolved from circles, chevrons, stripes and diamonds and back again to the circle late in his career.

Such proposals often involve sulfates, particles that form in the stratosphere from sulfur dioxide ejected by volcanoes, or other molecules with high reflectivity, such as diamond dust or alumina (aluminum oxide).

Schultz, professor of geological sciences at Brown and an impact specialist, said the most provocative evidence for an extraterrestrial impact was the discovery of nanodiamonds, microscopic bits of diamond formed only from the kind of intense pressure you'd get from a comet or meteorite slamming into the Earth.

Minuscule diamond fragments found in a sediment layer dating from thousands of years ago are bolstering the theory that a catastrophic comet impact wiped out many forms of life in North America, including what are thought to have been the first human settlers of the continent, the so - called Clovis people.

The strikingly chiseled form draws inspiration from faceted diamonds and is the product of the second collaboration between Kelly Hoppen and Apaiser.