Water is seen as small red and white molecules on
large nanodiamond spheres.
Not exact matches
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.
The stone's noble gas content supports an extraterrestrial origin, while the presence of tiny diamonds —
larger than
nanodiamonds found in a common kind of meteorite called chondrites, but similar in size to diamond aggregates known to be formed by impacts — supports a cometary origin.
Nanophase Carbon Materials (carbon nanotubes,
nanodiamond, nanocomposite]-- A form of matter in which small clusters of atoms form the building blocks of a
larger structure.