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To: Red Badger
Natural Diamonds are created under high temperatures and pressures and remain stable at normal room temps

Actually, if I remember correctly, they are not stable at normal temp and pressure thermodynamically, but chemical kinetics says it will take a very, very long time for those carbon-carbon bonds to break.

20 posted on 12/29/2022 4:00:01 PM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: seowulf

So, in a billion years or so, all the diamonds will explode?..................cool!..............


21 posted on 12/30/2022 5:52:20 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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